The Industrious Revolution
Title | The Industrious Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Jan de Vries |
Publisher | |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2008-05-26 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521719254 |
This 2008 book traces the evolution of an 'industrious revolution' that fundamentally altered the material cultures of Europe and North America.
Energy and the English Industrial Revolution
Title | Energy and the English Industrial Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | E. A. Wrigley |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2010-08-19 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0521766931 |
Retrospective: 9.
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
Title | The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective PDF eBook |
Author | Robert C. Allen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 13 |
Release | 2009-04-09 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0521868270 |
Why did the industrial revolution take place in 18th century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Title | Encyclopaedia Britannica PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh Chisholm |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1090 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN |
This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
The Industrial Revolution and British Society
Title | The Industrial Revolution and British Society PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick O'Brien |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1993-01-29 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521437448 |
This text is a wide-ranging survey of the principal economic and social aspects of the first Industrial Revolution.
Japan’s Industrious Revolution
Title | Japan’s Industrious Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Akira Hayami |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 145 |
Release | 2015-05-14 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 4431551425 |
This book explains in fascinating detail how economic and social transformations in pre-1600 Japan led to an industrious revolution in the early modern period and how the fruits of the Industrious Revolution are what have supported Japan since the eighteenth century, improving living standards and leading to the formation of the work ethic of modern Japan. The arrival of the Sengoku Period in the sixteenth century saw the emergence and domination of government by the warrior class. It was Tokugawa Ieyasu who unified the realm. Yet this unity did not give rise to an autocratic state, as the shogun was recognized merely as a main pillar of the warrior class. Economically, however, from the fourteenth century, currency payments for shōen nengu (taxes paid to the proprietor) became standard, and currency circulation began, primarily in the central region. Under Tokugawa rule, organized domestic coinage of currency began, opening the way to establishing a national economic society. Also, agricultural land was surveyed through cadastral surveys known as kenchi. Land values were converted in terms of rice, so the expected rice yields for each village were assessed, and the lords used this as a benchmark for imposing taxes. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Japan experienced a “great transition,” and conditions for peasants, agriculture, and farming villages underwent great changes. Inefficient traditional agriculture using peasants in a state of servitude was transformed into highly efficient small-sized farming operations which relied on family labor. As production yields increased due to labor-intensive agriculture, the profits obtained by the peasants improved their living standards. The stem-family system became the norm through which work ethics and even literacy were transmitted. This very change was the result of the “industrious revolution” in Japan. The book thus presents the framework of the facts of pre-industrial Japanese history and depicts pre-modern Japan from a macroscopic point of view, showing how the industrious revolution came about. It is certain to be of great interest to economists and historians alike.
The Industrial Revolution in Scotland
Title | The Industrial Revolution in Scotland PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher A. Whatley |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 126 |
Release | 1997-01-28 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521576437 |
A succinct and accessible account of the nature and impact of industrialisation in Scotland.