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Gavin Weightman · 2007
A lively global narrative that shows how British inventors, engineers and entrepreneurs turned coal, steam and cotton into the first industrial economy, while tracing the wider forces of empire and trade that made it possible.
William Rosen · 2010
A vivid narrative of the inventors, patents, and engineering culture that turned steam power into the engine of the Industrial Revolution.
Jenny Uglow · 2002
Brings to life the Midlands engineers and entrepreneurs whose workshops and experiments forged the practical culture of steam and manufacture.
Robert C. Allen · 2009
Directly answers the axis by arguing that Britain's uniquely high wages, cheap coal and imperial markets made mechanisation profitable, offering a clear, readable economic explanation for why Britain industrialised first.
Peter Mathias · 1971
Mathias provides a clear economic framework for why Britain industrialised first, including the role of cotton mills as sites of capital investment and labour discipline.
Joel Mokyr · 2009
A substantial but accessible synthesis that places institutions, useful knowledge and the Enlightenment culture of invention at the centre of Britain's industrial breakthrough, complementing coal and empire explanations.
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