Isbn: 9780415081566 - patterns of european industrialisation: the nineteenth century (the new routledge library of economics) (20 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Clean except for a gift note penned on the inside of the front cover and another at the top of the first (summary) page; no other owners' marks; the soft cover has short wrinkles at the bottom right front corner, a crease along the spine, and a little light edgewear at corners, otherwise sound. xii, 276pp. incl. index.…

Zustand: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. There are books that tell you the Industrial Revolution happened. Patterns of European Industrialisation ? The Nineteenth Century instead calmly assembles several hundred pages of economic history, comparative development, infrastructure, banking systems, labour transformation, and continental manufacturing data to explain precisely how it happened, why it happened unevenly, and why Belgium suddenly became extremely important for a while. This is peak serious economic history: the kind of book that regards railways, tariffs, coal output, banking structures, and steel production not as background detail but as the actual engines of modern civilisation. Which, to be fair, they were. Edited by Richard Sylla and Gianni Toniolo, the book examines how different parts of Europe industrialised during the nineteenth century, revealing that ?the Industrial Revolution? was less a single dramatic event and more a sprawling continental competition involving factories, finance, state policy, engineering, transport networks, and vast quantities of soot. And this is where the subject becomes wonderfully ironic. Victorian Europe loved presenting industrialisation as triumphant progress powered by heroic inventors and noble enterprise. In reality, much of the continent spent the nineteenth century noisily improvising its way toward modernity while covering itself in smoke and railway debt. Entire societies were transformed by machines, urbanisation, banking systems, and mass production before anybody fully understood the social consequences. The great pleasure of this book lies in its refusal to simplify that complexity. Britain industrialised differently from Germany. France developed differently from Italy. Some regions surged ahead through finance, others through heavy industry, others through state intervention, and others mainly through copying whoever seemed least economically unstable at the time. There is something deeply satisfying about economic history done properly. Beneath every nineteenth-century novel about manners and inheritance lurked blast furnaces, textile mills, shipping insurance, canal systems, bond markets, and exhausted workers trying not to lose limbs to machinery. Patterns of European Industrialisation quietly restores that hidden infrastructure to the centre of the story. The book also captures the fascinating moment when Europe effectively built the modern world by accident. Industrialisation brought wealth, empire, railways, mass production, urban growth, pollution, labour unrest, financial crises, and eventually modern capitalism itself, all wrapped together in one enormous historical experiment nobody could fully control. Naturally, this being Routledge, the tone is serious, scholarly, and gloriously unconcerned with entertaining anyone not genuinely interested in nineteenth-century economic transformation. This is not ?fun history? in the television-documentary sense. It is proper academic material for readers who become mildly excited by comparative industrial output tables. And yet there is a strange beauty to books like this. They reveal how profoundly strange modernity actually is. Europe transformed itself from a largely agrarian society into an industrial machine within a few generations, powered by coal, finance, engineering, and a near-religious faith in production statistics. Physically, this copy is in Good condition, with a stain to the top page edge. Importantly, it has not caused water damage, meaning the book remains entirely solid and usable. In many ways the stain feels oddly appropriate for a work on industrialisation. A spotless economic-history textbook about the nineteenth century would almost seem suspiciously detached from the realities of steam, grime, damp warehouses, and overworked clerks. An excellent volume for students of economic history, industrial archaeology, European development, or anyone fascinated by the astonishing process through which Europe collectively decided to replace fields with factories and then spent the next century arguing about the consequences.…

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Previous owner's name inside front cover. No other marks or inscriptions. Tiny creases to front corners and to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight dustiness to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. 276pp. A discussion based on studies from six authors plus individual country studies of six different European countries and Russia. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 9.25 x 6 inches.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Zustand: New. pp. 288.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. In English.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. Richard Sylla, Gianni TonioloThe new opportunities for economic development in Eastern Europe and the approach of 1992 have heightened interest in the development of the European economy. This volume, which includes contributions from some of the world .

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 276 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Zustand: Like New. LIKE NEW. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: New. This volume, which includes contributions from some of the world's leading economic historians, presents and discusses the latest research findings on the industrialization and modernization of the European economy. Editor(s): Sylla, Richard; Toniolo, Gianni. Series: The New Routledge Library of Economics. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1D; HBTB; KCB; KN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 566. . 1992. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Zustand: New. This volume, which includes contributions from some of the world's leading economic historians, presents and discusses the latest research findings on the industrialization and modernization of the European economy. Editor(s): Sylla, Richard; Toniolo, Gianni. Series: The New Routledge Library of Economics. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1D; HBTB; KCB; KN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 566. . 1992. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . .…

Zustand: New. Print on Demand pp. 288 This item is printed on demand.

Zustand: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 288.