This book describes technological change in an industry that played a central role in the Indsutrial Revolution. While earlier scholars have examined isolated a

This book describes technological change in an industry that played a central role in the Indsutrial Revolution. While earlier scholars have examined isolated a

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

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

Long neglected, the Eighteenth Century is now the focus for much of the most exciting work in history today. This new research has so altered and expanded our u