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"The Industrial Revolution was one of the great, transforming events of world history. Robert C. Allen explains what happened during this period, and why. He asks why the revolution occured in Britain rather than other countries, and looks at the impact of changing technology and business organizations on contemporary social structures."--Publisher's description.

Von der Erfolgsgeschichte der westlichen Nationen seit der europäischen Expansion in der Frühen Neuzeit über die Entwicklung des Welthandels und die Industrialisierung im 19. Jahrhundert bis hin zum Aufstieg Asiens und den sogenannten »Entwicklungsländern« beschreibt der Oxforder Wirtschaftshistoriker Robert C. Allen anschaulich und verständlich die Entstehung unserer globalen Wirtschaft in den letzten 500 Jahren. Im Zentrum steht dabei eine Frage, die auch für das 21. Jahrhundert nichts an ihrer Relevanz verloren hat: Warum sind einige Nationen so viel erfolgreicher und wohlhabender als andere?

Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows that in Britain wages were high and capital and energy cheap in comparison to other countries in Europe and Asia. As a result, the breakthrough technologies of the industrial revolution - the steam engine, the cotton mill, and the substitution of coal for wood in metal production - were uniquely profitable to invent and use in Britain. The high wage economy of pre-industrial Britain also fostered industrial development since more people could afford schooling and apprenticeships. It was only when British engineers made these new technologies more cost-effective during the nineteenth century that the industrial revolution would spread around the world.

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