In recent years, traditional views of a rapidly growing British economy between 1700 and 1850 have been overturned by convincing new research indicating that Br

A number of changes in the English economy during the eighteenth century marked the inception of the modern industrialised world. Whether for the historian seek

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Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial Revolution During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and th

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