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A conjuncture in global history or an Anglo-American construct: the British Industrial Revolution, 1700–1850

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2010

Patrick O’Brien
Patrick O’Brien
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London School of Economics, UK E-mail: p.o’brien@lse.ac.uk
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Journal of Global History , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , November 2010 , pp. 503 - 509
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1 Patrick O’Brien, ‘Provincializing the First Industrial Revolution’, Working Paper 17/06 of the Global Economic History Network (GEHN), London School of Economics, January 2006, http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/22474/1/wp17.pdf (consulted 7 July 2010).

2 Vide the text by Martin Daunton, Progress and poverty: an economic and social history of Britain 1700–1850, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, and the collection of survey essays edited by Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson, The Cambridge economic history of modern Britain, volume 1: Industrialisation, 1700–1860, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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9 These ideas and connections have also been explored by two other major and recent projects in European history. Vide Penelope Gouk (ed.), The Achievement Project 1990–95, Oxford, 1996; and Stefan R. Epstein and Maarten Prak (eds.), Guilds, innovation and the European economy, 1400–1800, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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12 These unpalatable and contestable views, which are in line with mainstream views of the period, will appear in a chapter written with Xavier Duran in Richard Unger (ed.), Shipping efficiency and economic growth 1350–1800, Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, forthcoming 2010.