Industrial Revolutions. Volume 10. The coal and iron industries
Details:
- Author(s) Church, Roy (ed)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1994
- Pages 514pp
- Publisher Blackwell for Economic History Society
- Place Published Oxford
Topics:
- Name Power & fuel history
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Collected academic articles and chapters [24 items] which have come to be regarded as 'classic' contributions to the subject of the development of coal extraction and iron production industries in periods of industrial revolution. Most, but not all, deal with the British experience. Includes an introductory essay by the editor. Sponsored by Economic History Society. Arranged in five parts: 1] 'The question of fuel'; 2] 'The foundations of British pre-eminence in coal production'; 3] 'The emergence of mineral fuel technology'; 4] 'Resource endowments, trade, tariffs, and the diffusion of mineral fuel technology in continental Europe'; 5] 'Coal and iron in American industrialization'