Modern European economic history is marked by an endeavor to transcend the traditional national case study approach, to use comparisons and to deploy economic t

The Industrial Revolution is a central concept in conventional understandings of the modern world, and as such is a core topic on many history courses. It is th

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Why did the industrial revolution take place in 18th century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolu

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