Why did the industrial revolution take place in 18th century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolu

This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the be

This important new book endeavors to explain the industrial revolution throughout the British Isles.

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The industrial revolution stands out as a key event not simply in British history, but in world history, ushering in as it did a new era of sustained economic p