The First Industrial Nation

Mathias, Peter

doi:10.4324/9780203820865

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“…Additionally, the effects of the French Wars almost certainly swamped any further developments in the transport sector. A hint of this might be seen in the figures provided by Mathias (1983) who reports that the total investment in canals between 1750 and 1815 was some twenty million GBP while the total debt issue attributable to the French Wars was some five hundred million GBP and total direct military costs were in excess of one billion GBP. The marginal effects might have been very different, but surely the magnitudes involved are telling.…”

Section: Internal Developments: the Primacy Of Transportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Foreign wars, domestic markets: England, 1793-1815

Jacks

2011

European Review of Economic History

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This paper explores the means by which warfare influences domestic commodity markets. It is argued that England during the French Wars provides an ideal testing ground. Four categories of explanatory variables are taken as likely sources of documented changes in English commodity price disintegration during this period: weather, trade, policy, and wartime events. Empirically, increases in price dispersion are related to all of the above categories. However, the primary means identified by which warfare influenced domestic commodity market integration was through international trade linkages and the arrival of news regarding wartime events.

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Section: Internal Developments: the Primacy Of Transportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Foreign wars, domestic markets: England, 1793-1815

Jacks

2011

European Review of Economic History

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“…Although Watt may have learned from Joseph Black at the University of Glasgow, this had no effect on the design of steam engines. 55 The science-technology issue led to some sharp exchanges between Musson and Eric Robinson on the one hand, who argued that contemporary science did indeed have a crucial role, and Rupert Hall on the other, whose rebuttal was that however much inventors respected or talked about science, actual direct linkages are very difficult to find. 56 The nature of this debate shifted in the 1980s and 1990s.…”

Section: Sources Of Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…59 Technical artisanal skills have repeatedly been mentioned as a factor sustaining technological development, with possible roots in existing industries including instrument making, maritime trade and metallurgy. 60 The number of close investigations of this issue remains limited, but David Mitch has argued that the contribution of specific educational institutions to technological creativity has been difficult to determine. Nevertheless, he claimed that the skills of the British workforce did have a significant role in economic change.…”

Section: Sources Of Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Technology in the British Industrial Revolution

Tomory

2016

History Compass

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Technology and technological innovation has been one of the crucial features of the historiography of the Industrial Revolution. In the early nineteenth century, this focus on the “machinery question”, or the effects that machines had on the condition of labourer. Around 1900 academic historians began to explore the nature and causes of technological innovation, with Max Weber's thesis being the most influential. In the postwar period, optimistic assessment saw the technological creativity of the Industrial Revolution as crucial turning point in the history of Western economic growth. The period after 1970 has seen much broader fields of inquiry, including in product innovation, proto‐industrialization, and in industries outside the canonical group of cotton, iron, and steam engines.

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“…Whilst economic historians have long discussed the nature and the determinants of technical change in the early phases of industrialization (see Habakkuk, 1962;Landes, 1969;Mathias, 1983; just to mention a few classical contributions), comparatively less attention has instead been devoted to the diffusion of new technologies in this historical period. Reviewing the state of the art more than thirty years ago, Rosenberg noted:…”

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confidence: 99%