Locating The Industrial Revolution: Inducement And Response
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Bourgeois Values
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De-Industrialisation
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Industrial Revolution
Industrialisation
Landed System
Market Competition
Natural Resource Endowment
Network Advantages
Regional Competition
Technological Innovation
The Enlightenment
Transport Investment
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- ISBN 9789814295253
- Publication Date: 27 May 2010
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
- Publication City/Country: SG
- Product Form: Hardback
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The familiar industrialisation of northern England and less familiar de-industrialisation of the south are shown to have depended on a common process. Neither rise nor decline resulted from differences in natural resource endowments, since they began before the use of coal and steam in manufacturing. Instead, political certainty, competitive ideology and Enlightenment optimism encouraged investment in transport and communications. This integrated the national market, intensifying competition between regions and altering economic distributions. Despite a dysfunctional landed system, agricultural innovation meant that the south's comparative advantage shifted towards the farm sector. Meanwhile its manufactures slowly declined. Once industry clustered in the less benign northern environment, technological changes in manufacturing accumulated there.This book portrays the Industrial Revolution as deriving from economic competition within unique political arrangements.
