The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective.

摘要

Robert C. Allen's The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective is a very interesting and persuasive book, the fruit of mature and impressively wide-ranging scholarship. It's a must-read for historians dealing with the Industrial Revolution or economic history more generally, and provocative as well for early modernists. Allen aims to show why the Industrial Revolution began first in Britain-had to begin there, he claims-and why further technological adjustments were essential for the phenomenon seriously to take root anywhere else. The questions are classic and the answers not entirely new, but never before have solutions been so carefully and systematically advanced and interpretive alternatives so directly eliminated.