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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2014
      June 2003
      ISBN:
      9780511819957
      9780521826662
      9780521534024
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511819957
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.89kg, 590 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.82kg, 590 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History, Regional History after 1500, Economic History
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    For over thirty years David S. Landes's The Unbound Prometheus has offered an unrivalled history of industrial revolution and economic development in Europe. Now, in this updated edition, the author reframes and reasserts his original arguments in the light of debates about globalisation and comparative economic growth. The book begins with a classic account of the characteristics, progress, and political, economic and social implications of the Industrial Revolution in Britain, France and Germany. Professor Landes here raises the much-debated question: why was Europe the first to industrialise? He then charts the economic history of the twentieth-century: the effect of the First World War in accelerating the dissolution of the old international economy; the economic crisis of 1929–32; Europe's recovery and unprecedented economic growth following the Second World War. He concludes that only by continuous industrial revolution can Europe and the world sustain itself in the years ahead.

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    "The first edition has long been a classic in the field...In 1969, Landes undertook the heroic task of surveying modern technological history. This path-breaking work asked the right questions, and provided insightful and balanced answers. It still repays reading by scholars of technological and economic history." Rick Szostak, The International History Review

    "An unbeatable introduction to the economic history of the industrial and technologiocal revolutions in Western Europe." Military Review

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