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Commodity frontiers: concepts and history

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2021

Maxine Berg*
Affiliation:
Department of History, University of Warwick, CoventryCV4 7AL, UK
*
Corresponding author. E-mail: maxine.berg@warwick.ac.uk

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References

1 Jason Moore, Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (London, 2015).

2 E. A. Wrigley, Continuity, Chance & Change. The Character of the Industrial Revolution in England (Cambridge, 1988). Also see his Energy and the English Industrial Revolution (Cambridge, 2010).

3 Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton, 2000).

4 See the historical research reaching back into the 1970s on ‘proto-industrialisation’ and the ‘industrious revolution’: Franklin Mendels, “Proto-Industrialization: The First Phase of the Process of Industrialization,” Journal of Economic History 32 (1972); P. Kriedte, H. Medick, and J. Schlumbohm, Industrialization before Industrialization (1977), (English Translation, 1981); Maxine Berg, Pat Hudson, and Michael Sonenscher, eds., Manufacture in Town and Country before the Factory (Cambridge, 1983); Jan de Vries, The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and The Household Economy, 1650 to the Present (Cambridge, 2009). For a recent excellent survey of the historiography and social science theory of proto-industrialization, proletarianization and the connections of the countryside to industrialization, see Jan de Vries, “Rethinking Protoindustry: Human Capital and Rise of Modern Industry,” in Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation, eds. Kristine Bruland, Anne Gerritsen, Pat Hudson, and Giorgio Riello (Montreal & Kingston, London, Chicago, 2020), 107–126.

5 See Christopher Smout, Nature Contested: Environmental History in Scotland and Northern England since 1600 (Edinburgh, 2000).

6 See Gareth Austin and Kaoru Sugihara, eds., Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History (Abingdon, UK, 2013); Kaoru Sugihara, “Varieties of Industrialisation: An Asian Regional Perspective,”, in Global Economic History, eds. Tirthankar Roy and Giorgio Riello (London, 2019), 195–214.

7 See Marc Bloch, The Historian’s Craft (1914), trans. French (Manchester, 1954).