The Spread of Modern Industry to the Periphery since 1871

Ever since the Industrial Revolution of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, industrialization has been the key to modern economic growth. The fact that modern industry originated in Britain, and spread initially to northwestern Europe and North America, implied a dramatic divergence...

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Other Authors: O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj (Editor), Williamson, Jeffrey Gale (Editor)
Format: eBook
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2017
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