
Автор: E. A. Wrigley
Название: Energy and the English Industrial Revolution
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780511779619
Язык: английский
Год: 2010
Формат: pdf
Размер: 13.6 Мб
Кол-во страниц: 289
Описание:
The industrial revolution transformed the productive power of societies. It did so by vastly increasing the individual productivity, thus delivering whole populations from poverty. In this new account by one of the world's acknowledged authorities the central issue is not simply how the revolution began but still more why it did not quickly end. The answer lay in the use of a new source of energy.