Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Measurement -- Specifying the industrial revolution -- The causes of the industrial revolution -- Part One: Writing and Rewriting History -- 1 Perspectives on the Industrial Revolution -- Early interpretations -- The revolution challenged -- Economic cycles and the industrial revolution -- Economic growth models -- Dependency theories -- The transition debate -- Heroic accounts -- Technology -- Capital formation -- The factory system and its alternatives -- The standard of living -- Class and class conflict -- Current perspectives -- 2 The Economy and the State -- The macroeconomic perspective -- Macro estimates and macro interpretations -- Method and measurement -- Sources -- Identifying the industrial revolution -- Productivity and innovation -- The state -- Central government revenue -- Government expenditure and war -- The impact of the Napoleonic Wars -- Economy, society and the fiscal military state -- Conclusion -- 3 Agriculture and the Industrial Revolution -- Productivity and innovation -- Productivity estimates -- Technical innovations -- Capitalist farming -- Enclosure -- The marketing of agricultural produce -- The dynamic links -- The release of labour -- The supply of food, raw materials and exports -- Incomes, real incomes and the home market -- Agriculture as a consumer of goods and services -- The release of capital -- Conclusion -- Part Two: The Industrial Revolution -- 4 Regions and Industries -- The regional perspective -- National considerations -- Regional diversity -- Proto-industrialisation: the location -- Proto-industrialisation: dynamic influences -- Capital, labour and innovation -- The West Riding of Yorkshire -- Lancashire -- Birmingham and the West Midlands.
This is an introduction to the Industrial Revolution which offers an integrated account of the economic and social aspects of change during the period.
