Dexter (or Dex, as he is frequently called) goes from being the person you like "in an ironic, tongue-in-cheek, love-to-hate kind of way" (in the words of his agent) to someone you (or at least I) can't abide somewhere around the hundred page mark. I had a great instructor for my course, and towards the later part of the cou
| Title | : | Energy and the English Industrial Revolution |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.88 (402 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521131855 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-8-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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In this new account by one of the world's acknowledged authorities the central issue is not simply how the revolution began but still more why it did not quickly end. It did so by vastly increasing the individual productivity, thus delivering whole populations from poverty. The answer lay in the use of a new source of energy. The industrial revolution transformed the productive power of societies. Since this happened first in England, its experience has a special fascination, though other countries rapidly followed suit.. Exploitation of a new source of energy in the form of coal provided an escape route from the constraints of an organic economy but also brought novel dangers. As long as mechanical energy came principally from human or animal muscle and heat energy from wood, the maximum attainable level of productivity was bound to be low. Pre-industrial societies had access only to very limited energy suppliesEnergy economics are of central importance to any study of economic change, especially when supported by the breadth of the learning underlying this book." -Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University"Whether wind or solar power can ever provide the energy needed in an increasingly energy-conscious and insecure world is debatable but this excellent book provides a historical perspective that is either ignored or given little credence in contemporary debates of considerable subtlety and relevance. This is a book not to be ignored." -The Historical Association"an accessible and comprehensive guide to his interpretation of the industrial revolution. If you want to understand how our dependency on fossil fuels began and what we might do to escape it, you must read this book." -George Monbiot"Here, Tony Wrigley develops the central themes that have characterized his distinS. Sir Tony Wrigley is a member and co-founder of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure and a former President of the British Academy. Schofield, The Population History of England 1541-1871 (1981). . His previous publications include Population and History (1969), People, Cities and Wealth (1987), Continuity, Chance and Change (1988), Poverty, Progress, and Population (2004), and, with R
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