Between 1700-1850 Britain moved from a situation in which she was unable to supply a large part of her home market to being the world's largest producer and exp

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

For both contemporaries and later historians the Industrial Revolution is viewed as a turning point' in modern British history. There is no doubt that change oc

Develops a fresh non-Eurocentric analysis of the rise and development of the global economy in the last half-millennium.