Energy and the English Industrial Revolution
by Edward Anthony Wrigley
"The industrial revolution transformed the productive power of societies. It did so by vastly increasing the individual productivity, thus delivering whole populations from poverty. In this new account by one of the world's acknowledged authorities the central issue is not simply how the revolution began but still more why it did not quickly end. The answer lay in the use of a new source of energy. Pre-industrial societies had access only to very limited energy supplies. As long as mechanical energy came principally from human or animal muscle and heat energy from wood, the maximum attainable level of productivity was bound to be low. Exploitation of a new source of energy in the form of coal provided an escape route from the constraints of an organic economy but also brought novel dangers. Since this happened first in England, its experience has a special fascination, though other countries rapidly followed suit"--
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Coal trade, History, Power resources, Industrial revolution, Energy development, Industries, great britain, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING, Power Resources, General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Industries, Energy, SCIENCE, Industrielle Revolution, Kohlenversorgung, Energieversorgung, Industrialisierung, Industriella revolutionen, Ekonomisk historia, Power resources--history, Power resources--great britain--history, Coal trade--history, Coal trade--great britain--history, Industrial revolution--great britain, Hd9502.g72 w75 2010, 333.790942/09034Places
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Energy and the English Industrial Revolution
2010, Cambridge University Press
in English
0521766931 9780521766937
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