Exceptionalism and Industrialisation

Britain and its European Rivals, 1688-1815

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This 2004 book explores the question of British exceptionalism in the period from the Glorious Revolution to the Congress of Vienna. Leading historians examine why Great Britain emerged from years of sustained competition with its European rivals in a discernible position of hegemony in the domains of naval power, empire, global commerce, agricultural efficiency, industrial production, fiscal capacity and advanced technology. They deal with Britain's unique path to industrial revolution and distinguish four themes on the interactions between its emergence as a great power and as the first industrial nation. First, they highlight growth and industrial change, the interconnections between agriculture, foreign trade and industrialisation. Second, they examine technological change and, especially, Britain's unusual inventiveness. Third, they study her institutions and their role in facilitating economic growth. Fourth and finally, they explore British military and naval supremacy, showing how this was achieved and how it contributed to Britain's economic supremacy.

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List of tables and figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: was British industrialisation exceptional?
The Origins of British Primacy:
Britain's economic ascendancy in a European context
Comparative patterns of colonial trade: Britain and its rivals
Agriculture and Industrialisation:
European farmers and the British 'agricultural revolution'
Precocious British industrialisation: a general-equilibrium perspective N.
Technological Change:
The European origins of British technological predominance
Invention in the Industrial Revolution: the case of cotton
Continental responses to British innovations in the iron industry during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
Institutions and Growth:
The monetary, financial and political architecture of Europe, 1648-1815
Towards the comparative fiscal history of Britain and France during the 'long' eighteenth century
Money and economic development in eighteenth-century England
War and Hegemony:
Naval power: what gave the British naval superiority?
Conclusions: Institutional change and British supremacy, 1650-1850: some reflections
Laudatio patritii: Patrick O'Brien and European economic history
References
Index
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Exceptionalism and Industrialisation

Britain and its European Rivals, 1688-1815

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