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The industrial revolution, an unintended consequence of self-defence?

Part of: The Industrial Revolution as a Global Conjuncture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2021

Leandro Prados de la Escosura
Leandro Prados de la Escosura*
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Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Getafe, Spain
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Corresponding author. E-mail: leandro.prados.delaescosura@uc3m.es
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Journal of Global History , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , March 2022 , pp. 159 - 164
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