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Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation |
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A new approach to economic history that focuses on four aspects: manufacture, technology, luxury, and global trade.
The Industrial Revolution is central to the teaching of economic history. It has also been key to historical research on the commercial expansion of Western Europe, the rise of factories, coal and iron production, the proletarianization of labour, and the birth and worldwide spread of industrial capitalism.
However, perspectives on the Industrial Revolution have changed significantly in recent years. The interdisciplinary approach of Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation - with contributions on the history of consumption, material culture, and cultural histories of science and technology - offers a more global perspective, arguing for an interpretation of the industrial revolution based on global interactions that made technological innovation and the spread of knowledge possible. Through this new lens, it becomes clear that industrialising processes started earlier and lasted longer than previously understood.
Reflecting on the major topics of concern for economic historians over the past generation, Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation brings this area of study up to date and points the way forward.
Contributors include Helen Clifford (University of Warwick), Sarah Easterby-Smith (St Andrew's University), Margot Finn (University College London), Liliane Hilaire-Pérez (Université Paris VII), Morgan Kelly (University College Dublin), Beverly Lemire (University of Alberta), Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University), Patrick O'Brien (London School of Economics), Cormac Ó Gráda (University College Dublin), Johan Poukens (Louvain University), Osamu Saito (University of Tokyo), Kate Smith (University of Birmingham), Keith Smith (Imperial College London), Herman Van der Wee (Louvain University), Jan de Vries (University of California, Berkeley), David Washbrook (Cambridge University), and Natalie Zemon Davis (University of Toronto).
However, perspectives on the Industrial Revolution have changed significantly in recent years. The interdisciplinary approach of Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation - with contributions on the history of consumption, material culture, and cultural histories of science and technology - offers a more global perspective, arguing for an interpretation of the industrial revolution based on global interactions that made technological innovation and the spread of knowledge possible. Through this new lens, it becomes clear that industrialising processes started earlier and lasted longer than previously understood.
Reflecting on the major topics of concern for economic historians over the past generation, Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation brings this area of study up to date and points the way forward.
Contributors include Helen Clifford (University of Warwick), Sarah Easterby-Smith (St Andrew's University), Margot Finn (University College London), Liliane Hilaire-Pérez (Université Paris VII), Morgan Kelly (University College Dublin), Beverly Lemire (University of Alberta), Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University), Patrick O'Brien (London School of Economics), Cormac Ó Gráda (University College Dublin), Johan Poukens (Louvain University), Osamu Saito (University of Tokyo), Kate Smith (University of Birmingham), Keith Smith (Imperial College London), Herman Van der Wee (Louvain University), Jan de Vries (University of California, Berkeley), David Washbrook (Cambridge University), and Natalie Zemon Davis (University of Toronto).
Details
344 Pages, 6 x 9
23 b&w illustrations, 7 tables
ISBN 9780228000914
March 2020
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
"This state-of-the-art collection offers a fine overview of new debates about the Industrial Revolution. Its attention to global flows of goods and knowledge, the transformative power of consumption, and the centrality of workers, their skills, and how they were organised makes this a worthy tribute to the impressive contributions and career of Maxine Berg." Regina Grafe, European University Institute
"Scholars at different stages of their careers, with widely varied perspectives, here engage with Berg's work in direct ways. They combine useful synthesis with new research to provide a coherent and well-integrated volume which makes an important contribution to economic history." Nuala Zahedieh, University of Edinburgh
"Scholars at different stages of their careers, with widely varied perspectives, here engage with Berg's work in direct ways. They combine useful synthesis with new research to provide a coherent and well-integrated volume which makes an important contribution to economic history." Nuala Zahedieh, University of Edinburgh
Kristine Bruland is professor emeritus at the University of Oslo.
Anne Gerritsen teaches the history of China and global history at the University of Warwick, and the history of Asian art at the University of Leiden.
Pat Hudson is emeritus professor of economic history at Cardiff University and honorary vice-president of the Economic History Society.
Giorgio Riello is chair of early modern global history at the European University Institute and professor of global history and culture at the University of Warwick.
Anne Gerritsen teaches the history of China and global history at the University of Warwick, and the history of Asian art at the University of Leiden.
Pat Hudson is emeritus professor of economic history at Cardiff University and honorary vice-president of the Economic History Society.
Giorgio Riello is chair of early modern global history at the European University Institute and professor of global history and culture at the University of Warwick.
Tables and Figures / ix
Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation: An Introduction / 3
Kristine Bruland, Anne Gerritsen, Pat Hudson, and Giorgio Riello
PART ONE
The Age of Manufactures: Knowledge, Making, and the Organisation of Production
1 Could Artisans Have Caused the Industrial Revolution? / 25
Morgan Kelly, Joel Mokyr, and Cormac Ó Gráda
2 ‘What Is Technology?’ An Enquiry into the Science of the Arts at the Dawn of Industrialisation / 44
Liliane Hilaire-Pérez
3 Silence and Secrecy in Britain’s Eighteenth-Century Ceramics Industry / 59
Kate Smith
4 Is Small Beautiful? Workshop Organisation, Technology, and Production in South India, 1700-1960 / 72
David Washbrook
5 An Outlook ‘wrapped up in flannel’: The Wool Textile Industry in Wales in the Early Twentieth Century / 87
Pat Hudson
PART TWO
The Age of Machinery: Technology, Human Capital, and Political Economy
6 Rethinking Protoindustry: Human Capital and the Rise of Modern Industry / 107
Jan de Vries
7 Machinery, Labour Absorption, and Small Producer Capitalism in the Comparative History of Industrialisation / 127
Osamu Saito
8 The Mechanisation of English Cotton Textile Production and the Industrial Revolution / 141
Patrick Karl O’Brien
9 An Automatic Technology in British Industrialisation
Kristine Bruland and Keith Smith / 161
PART THREE
The Age of Luxury: Consumption, Imagination, and Desire
10 Leo Africanus Presents Africa to Europeans / 179
Natalie Zemon Davis
11 Trade Cards and the Art of Selling Manufacture, c. 1680-1800 / 198
Helen Clifford
12 Old and New Luxuries in Town and Country in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Netherlands / 213
Johan Poukens and Herman Van der Wee
13 Threads of Empire: Indigenous Wares and Material Ecologies in the ‘Anglo-World,’ c. 1780-1920 / 229
Beverly Lemire
PART FOUR
The Age of Global Trade: Goods, Markets, and Trade
14 Who Knew How? Visual Representations of the Ceramics Production Process on Porcelain Vessels / 249
Anne Gerritsen
15 Factories before the Factory: The English East India Company’s Textile Procurement in India and British Industrialisation, 1650-1750 / 262
Giorgio Riello
16 Botany as Useful Knowledge: French Global Plant Collecting at the End of the Old Regime / 276
Sarah Easterby-Smith
17 Frictions of Empire: Colonial Bombay’s Probate and Property Networks in the 1780s / 290
Margot Finn
Contributors / 303
Index / 311
Contents / vii
Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation: An Introduction / 3
Kristine Bruland, Anne Gerritsen, Pat Hudson, and Giorgio Riello
PART ONE
The Age of Manufactures: Knowledge, Making, and the Organisation of Production
1 Could Artisans Have Caused the Industrial Revolution? / 25
Morgan Kelly, Joel Mokyr, and Cormac Ó Gráda
2 ‘What Is Technology?’ An Enquiry into the Science of the Arts at the Dawn of Industrialisation / 44
Liliane Hilaire-Pérez
3 Silence and Secrecy in Britain’s Eighteenth-Century Ceramics Industry / 59
Kate Smith
4 Is Small Beautiful? Workshop Organisation, Technology, and Production in South India, 1700-1960 / 72
David Washbrook
5 An Outlook ‘wrapped up in flannel’: The Wool Textile Industry in Wales in the Early Twentieth Century / 87
Pat Hudson
PART TWO
The Age of Machinery: Technology, Human Capital, and Political Economy
6 Rethinking Protoindustry: Human Capital and the Rise of Modern Industry / 107
Jan de Vries
7 Machinery, Labour Absorption, and Small Producer Capitalism in the Comparative History of Industrialisation / 127
Osamu Saito
8 The Mechanisation of English Cotton Textile Production and the Industrial Revolution / 141
Patrick Karl O’Brien
9 An Automatic Technology in British Industrialisation
Kristine Bruland and Keith Smith / 161
PART THREE
The Age of Luxury: Consumption, Imagination, and Desire
10 Leo Africanus Presents Africa to Europeans / 179
Natalie Zemon Davis
11 Trade Cards and the Art of Selling Manufacture, c. 1680-1800 / 198
Helen Clifford
12 Old and New Luxuries in Town and Country in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Netherlands / 213
Johan Poukens and Herman Van der Wee
13 Threads of Empire: Indigenous Wares and Material Ecologies in the ‘Anglo-World,’ c. 1780-1920 / 229
Beverly Lemire
PART FOUR
The Age of Global Trade: Goods, Markets, and Trade
14 Who Knew How? Visual Representations of the Ceramics Production Process on Porcelain Vessels / 249
Anne Gerritsen
15 Factories before the Factory: The English East India Company’s Textile Procurement in India and British Industrialisation, 1650-1750 / 262
Giorgio Riello
16 Botany as Useful Knowledge: French Global Plant Collecting at the End of the Old Regime / 276
Sarah Easterby-Smith
17 Frictions of Empire: Colonial Bombay’s Probate and Property Networks in the 1780s / 290
Margot Finn
Contributors / 303
Index / 311
Contents / vii
