The British Industrial Revolution in Global PerspectiveBook
by Robert C. Allen
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Economic historian writing on the Industrial Revolution and the origins of modern growth; author of the Great Transformations newsletter.
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The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective is the best book on the country’s adoption of sustained economic growth at the turn of the nineteenth century, full stop.
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