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1 online resource (xv, 335 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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"This volume originated in a conference held in March 26-27, 2001 in Madrid, on 'Britain and Its Rivals' ... to honour ... Patrick Karl O'Brien ... [and] sponsored by Fundación BBVA"--Page. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-323) and index. |
| Contents |
Britain₂s economic ascendancy in a European context / Robert C. Allen -- Comparative patterns of colonial trade : Britain and its rivals / Javier Cuenca Esteban -- European farmers and the British agricultural revolution / James Simpson -- Precocious British industrialisation : a general-equilibrium perspective / N.F.R. Crafts and C. Knick Harley -- The European origins of British technological predominance / Christine MacLeod -- Invention in the industrial revolution : the case of cotton / James Thomson -- Continental responses to British innovations in the iron industry during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Rainer Fremdling -- The monetary, financial, and political architecture of Europe, 1648-1815 / Larry Neal -- Towards the comparative fiscal history of Britain and France during the long eighteenth century / Richard Bonney -- Money and economic development in eighteenth-century England / Forrest Capie -- Naval power : what gave the British navy superiority? / Daniel A. Baugh -- Institutional change and British supremacy, 1650-1850 : some reflections / Stanley L. Engerman -- Laudatio patritii : Patrick O'Brien and European economic history / Gianni Toniolo. |
| Summary |
"This book explores the question of British exceptionalism in the period from the Glorious Revolution to the Congress of Vienna. Leading historians examine why Great Britain emerged from years of sustained competition with its European rivals in a discernible position of hegemony in the domains of naval power, empire, global commerce, agricultural efficiency, industrial production, fiscal capacity and advanced technology. They deal with Britain's unique path to industrial revolution and distinguish four themes on the interactions between its emergence as a great power and as the first industrial nation."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
O'Brien, Patrick Karl. |
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Industrial revolution -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses.
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Industrial revolution. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- Congresses.
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Economic conditions. |
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Technological innovations -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses.
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Technological innovations. |
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Industrial revolution -- Europe -- History -- Congresses.
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Europe. |
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Europe -- Economic conditions -- Congresses.
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Technological innovations -- Europe -- History -- Congresses.
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Exceptionalism -- Great Britain -- Congresses.
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Exceptionalism. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Festschriften.
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Festschriften.
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| Added Author |
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro.
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O'Brien, Patrick, 1932-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Exceptionalism and industrialisation. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge, 2004 9780521793049 (DLC) 2003049546 (OCoLC)53045391 |
| ISBN |
9781107321366 (electronic book) |
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1107321360 (electronic book) |
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9780511523830 (ebook) |
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0511523831 (ebook) |
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9781107315976 |
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1107315972 |
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0521793041 |
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9780521793049 |
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0521189691 |
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9780521189699 |
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