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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Other
1 Then and now
Reinforcing revolutions
The macro picture
Gainers and losers
Explaining the Industrial Revolution
Triggering events
2 The pre-Industrial Revolution, 1500–1700
The rise of northern Europe
Success in the global economy
Some knock-on effects
Wages and living standards
Health and literacy
3 Why the Industrial Revolution was British
Cotton
The invention of the factory
Steam
Ceramics
The end of the Industrial Revolution
4 The condition of England
Class structure
The standard of living of the working class
Inequality within the working class
Education
Health
The ‘perennial gale of creative destruction’
5 Reform and democracy
Before 1789
French Revolution and Napoleonic wars
1815-32
1832-46
1846-67
6 The spread of the Industrial Revolution abroad
Globalization and technology: the economics of de-industrialization
Catching up in the 19th century: the standard model in the USA
The standard model in Europe
The standard model on the periphery
Big push industrialization and the development State
The future of the industrial revolution
References
Further reading
Publisher’s acknowledgements
Index
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