Technology Cycle One Bibliography
Currently, the six-volume series titled “The Origins of Technology Cycles” is underway. Origins of Technology Cycles: From Looms to Locks Volume One is expected to be published in June 2025.
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1 Pre-Industrial Revolution seeds
Allen, R. C. (2009). The British Industrial Revolution in global perspective. Cambridge University Press.
Berg, M. (1994). The age of manufactures, 1700-1820: Industry, innovation and work in Britain (2nd ed.). Routledge.
Cardwell, D. S. L. (1972). Turning points in Western technology: A study of technology, science and history. Science History Publications.
Cipolla, C. M. (Ed.). (1976). The Industrial Revolution: 1700-1914. Harvester Press.
Deane, P. (1979). The first Industrial Revolution (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Harris, J. R. (1998). Industrial espionage and technology transfer: Britain and France in the eighteenth century. Ashgate.
Hobsbawm, E. J. (1999). Industry and empire: From 1750 to the present day (Rev. ed.). The New Press.
Jacob, M. C. (2014). The first knowledge economy: Human capital and the European economy, 1750-1850. Cambridge University Press.
Landes, D. S. (2003). The unbound Prometheus: Technological change and industrial development in Western Europe from 1750 to the present (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press.
MacLeod, C. (2007). Heroes of invention: Technology, liberalism and British identity, 1750-1914. Cambridge University Press.
Mokyr, J. (1990). The lever of riches: Technological creativity and economic progress. Oxford University Press.
Mokyr, J. (2002). The gifts of Athena: Historical origins of the knowledge economy. Princeton University Press.
Mokyr, J. (2009). The enlightened economy: An economic history of Britain 1700-1850. Yale University Press.
Musson, A. E., & Robinson, E. (1969). Science and technology in the Industrial Revolution. University of Toronto Press.
O’Brien, P. K., & Quinault, R. (Eds.). (1993). The Industrial Revolution and British society. Cambridge University Press.
Rolt, L. T. C. (1970). Tools for the job: A history of machine tools to 1950. B. T. Batsford.
Smil, V. (2005). Creating the twentieth century: Technical innovations of 1867-1914 and their lasting impact. Oxford University Press.
Temin, P. (1997). “Two views of the British Industrial Revolution.” The Journal of Economic History, 57(1), 63-82.
Usher, A. P. (1954). A history of mechanical inventions (Rev. ed.). Harvard University Press.
Weightman, G. (2007). The industrial revolutionaries: The making of the modern world 1776-1914. Atlantic Books.
2 The Installation Period
Allen, Robert C. The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Allen, Robert C. “The Industrial Revolution in Miniature: The Spinning Jenny in Britain, France, and India.” Journal of Economic History 69, no. 4 (2009): 901-927.
Ashton, T.S. The Industrial Revolution, 1760-1830. Oxford University Press, 1948.
Baines, Edward. History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain. H. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson, 1835.
Bairoch, Paul. Cities and Economic Development: From the Dawn of History to the Present. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Bagwell, Philip S. The Transport Revolution from 1770. B.T. Batsford, 1974.
Berg, Maxine. The Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820: Industry, Innovation, and Work in Britain. Routledge, 1994.
Berg, Maxine, and Pat Hudson. “Rehabilitating the Industrial Revolution.” Economic History Review 45, no. 1 (1992): 24-50.
Bogart, Dan. “The Transport Revolution in Industrializing Britain: A Survey.” In The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain, Volume 1: 1700-1870, edited by Roderick Floud, Jane Humphries, and Paul Johnson, 368-391. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Bogart, Dan. “Turnpike Trusts and the Transportation Revolution in 18th-Century England.” Explorations in Economic History 42, no. 4 (2005): 479-508.
Brewer, John. The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783. Harvard University Press, 1990.
Broadberry, Stephen, Bruce M.S. Campbell, Alexander Klein, Mark Overton, and Bas van Leeuwen. British Economic Growth, 1270-1870. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Cameron, Rondo. Banking in the Early Stages of Industrialization: A Study in Comparative Economic History. Oxford University Press, 1967.
Chaloner, W. H. “The Agricultural Activities of John Wilkinson, Ironmaster.” Agricultural History Review 5, no. 1 (1957): 48-51.
Chapman, S.D. The Cotton Industry in the Industrial Revolution. Macmillan, 1972.
Chapman, Stanley. “The Cost of Power in the Industrial Revolution in Britain: The Case of the Textile Industry.” Midland History 1, no. 2 (1971): 1-24.
Clapham, J.H. An Economic History of Modern Britain: The Early Railway Age, 1820-1850. Cambridge University Press, 1926.
Cottrell, P.L. Industrial Finance 1830-1914: The Finance and Organization of English Manufacturing Industry. Methuen, 1980.
Crafts, N.F.R. British Economic Growth during the Industrial Revolution. Oxford University Press, 1985.
Crafts, N.F.R., and C.K. Harley. “Output Growth and the British Industrial Revolution: A Restatement of the Crafts-Harley View.” Economic History Review 45, no. 4 (1992): 703-730.
Daunton, Martin. Progress and Poverty: An Economic and Social History of Britain 1700-1850. Oxford University Press, 1995.
Devine, T.M. The Tobacco Lords: A Study of the Tobacco Merchants of Glasgow and Their Trading Activities. Edinburgh University Press, 1975.
Dickinson, H.W. James Watt: Craftsman and Engineer. Cambridge University Press, 1936.
Dickinson, H.W., and Arthur Titley. Richard Trevithick: The Engineer and the Man. Cambridge University Press, 1934.
Emsley, Clive. British Society and the French Wars, 1793-1815. Macmillan, 1979.
Falkus, M.E.. “The British Gas Industry before 1850.” Economic History Review 20, no. 3 (1967): 494-508.
Fitton, R.S. The Arkwrights: Spinners of Fortune. Manchester University Press, 1989.
Fitton, R.S., and A.P. Wadsworth. The Strutts and the Arkwrights, 1758-1830: A Study of the Early Factory System. Manchester University Press, 1958.
Flinn, M.W. The History of the British Coal Industry, Volume 2: 1700-1830. Clarendon Press, 1984.
Freeman, Christopher, and Francisco Louçã. As Time Goes By: From the Industrial Revolutions to the Information Revolution. Oxford University Press, 2001.
Gilboy, Elizabeth W. “Demand as a Factor in the Industrial Revolution.” In The Causes of the Industrial Revolution in England, edited by R.M. Hartwell, 121-138. Methuen, 1967.
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Harvard University Press, 1979.
Hadfield, Charles. British Canals: An Illustrated History. David & Charles, 1966.
Hadfield, Charles. The Canal Age. David & Charles, 1968.
Hadfield, Charles, and A.W. Skempton. William Jessop, Engineer. David & Charles, 1979.
Harris, J.R. The British Iron Industry, 1700-1850. Macmillan, 1988.
Harris, J.R. Industrial Espionage and Technology Transfer: Britain and France in the Eighteenth Century. Ashgate, 1998.
Hills, Richard L. Power in the Industrial Revolution. Manchester University Press, 1970.
Hills, Richard L. James Watt, Volume 1: His Time in Scotland, 1736-1774. Landmark Publishing, 2002.
Hills, Richard L. James Watt, Volume 2: The Years of Toil, 1775-1785. Landmark Publishing, 2005.
Hills, Richard L. James Watt, Volume 3: Triumph through Adversity, 1785-1819. Landmark Publishing, 2006.
Hobsbawm, Eric J. Industry and Empire: The Birth of the Industrial Revolution. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968.
Hoppit, Julian. “Financial Crises in Eighteenth-Century England.” Economic History Review 39, no. 1 (1986): 39-58.
Hudson, Pat. The Industrial Revolution. Edward Arnold, 1992.
Hunt, E.H. “Industrialization and Regional Inequality: Wages in Britain, 1760-1914.” Journal of Economic History 46, no. 4 (1986): 935-966.
Hyde, Charles K. Technological Change and the British Iron Industry, 1700-1870. Princeton University Press, 1977.
Jones, E.L. Agriculture and the Industrial Revolution. Basil Blackwell, 1974.
King, Peter. “Customary Rights and Women’s Earnings: The Importance of Gleaning to the Rural Labouring Poor, 1750-1850.” Economic History Review 44, no. 3 (1991): 461-476.
Landes, David S. The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present. Cambridge University Press, 1969.
Langford, Paul. A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727-1783. Oxford University Press, 1989.
Lindert, Peter H., and Jeffrey G. Williamson. “English Workers’ Living Standards During the Industrial Revolution: A New Look.” Economic History Review 36, no. 1 (1983): 1-25.
Linebaugh, Peter. The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
MacLeod, Christine, and Alessandro Nuvolari. “Inventive Activities, Patents and Early Industrialization: A Synthesis of Research Issues.” Revista de Historia Industrial 52 (2013): 15-59.
Mantoux, Paul. The Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century: An Outline of the Beginnings of the Modern Factory System in England. Harper & Row, 1961.
McKendrick, Neil. “Josiah Wedgwood and Factory Discipline.” The Historical Journal 4, no. 1 (1961): 30-55.
McKendrick, Neil, John Brewer, and J.H. Plumb. The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England. Europa Publications, 1982.
Mitchell, B.R. British Historical Statistics. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Mokyr, Joel. The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850. Yale University Press, 2009.
Mokyr, Joel. The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. Oxford University Press, 1990.
Morgan, Kenneth. The Birth of Industrial Britain: Social Change, 1750-1850. Pearson Education, 2004.
Musson, A.E., and Eric Robinson. Science and Technology in the Industrial Revolution. Manchester University Press, 1969.
Neal, Larry. The Rise of Financial Capitalism: International Capital Markets in the Age of Reason. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
O’Brien, Patrick. “The Political Economy of British Taxation, 1660-1815.” Economic History Review 41, no. 1 (1988): 1-32.
Perez, Carlota. Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002.
Perez, Carlota. “Structural Change and Assimilation of New Technologies in the Economic and Social Systems.” Futures 15, no. 5 (1983): 357-375.
Pollard, Sidney. The Genesis of Modern Management: A Study of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. Edward Arnold, 1965.
Pratt, Edwin A. A History of Inland Transport and Communication in England. Kegan Paul, 1912.
Pressnell, L.S. Country Banking in the Industrial Revolution. Clarendon Press, 1956.
Price, Roger. The Economic Modernisation of France, 1730-1880. Croom Helm, 1975.
Randall, Adrian. Before the Luddites: Custom, Community and Machinery in the English Woollen Industry, 1776-1809. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Reed, M.C. Investment in Railways in Britain, 1820-1844. Oxford University Press, 1975.
Reynolds, Terry S. Stronger Than a Hundred Men: A History of the Vertical Water Wheel. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.
Richardson, Philip. The Structure of Capital during the Industrial Revolution Revisited: Two Case Studies from the Cotton Textile Industry. Economic History Review 42, no. 4 (1989): 484-503.
Rimmer, Gordon. Marshalls of Leeds, Flax-Spinners, 1788-1886. Cambridge University Press, 1960.
Robinson, Eric. “The Early Diffusion of Steam Power.” Journal of Economic History 34, no. 1 (1974): 91-107.
Roll, Eric. An Early Experiment in Industrial Organisation: Being a History of the Firm of Boulton & Watt, 1775-1805. Longmans, Green and Co., 1930.
Rose, Mary B. The Gregs of Quarry Bank Mill: The Rise and Decline of a Family Firm, 1750-1914. Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Rule, John. The Vital Century: England’s Developing Economy, 1714-1815. Longman, 1992.
Schumpeter, Joseph A. Business Cycles: A Theoretical, Historical, and Statistical Analysis of the Capitalist Process. McGraw-Hill, 1939.
Schofield, Robert E. The Lunar Society of Birmingham: A Social History of Provincial Science and Industry in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon Press, 1963.
Smiles, Samuel. Lives of the Engineers: The Steam Engine—Boulton and Watt. John Murray, 1865.
Smith, Alan. “Steam and the City: The Committee of Proprietors of the Birmingham Canal Navigation, 1767-1790.” Transactions of the Newcomen Society 49 (1977): 5-18.
Szostak, Rick. The Role of Transportation in the Industrial Revolution: A Comparison of England and France. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1991.
Thompson, E.P. The Making of the English Working Class. Victor Gollancz, 1963.
Timmins, Geoffrey. The Last Shift: The Decline of Handloom Weaving in Nineteenth-Century Lancashire. Manchester University Press, 1993.
Toynbee, Arnold. Lectures on the Industrial Revolution of the 18th Century in England. Longmans, Green, 1884.
Trinder, Barrie. The Making of the Industrial Landscape. J.M. Dent & Sons, 1982.
Tunzelmann, G.N. von. Steam Power and British Industrialization to 1860. Clarendon Press, 1978.
Turner, Michael. Enclosures in Britain 1750-1830. Macmillan, 1984.
Uglow, Jenny. The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
Unwin, George. Samuel Oldknow and the Arkwrights: The Industrial Revolution at Stockport and Marple. Manchester University Press, 1924.
Ward, J.R. The Finance of Canal Building in Eighteenth-Century England. Oxford University Press, 1974.
Ward-Perkins, C.N. The Commercial Crisis of 1793. Oxford University Press, 1952.
Williams, J.E. “Whitehaven in the Eighteenth Century.” Economic History Review 8, no. 3 (1956): 393-404.
Wilson, R.G. Gentlemen Merchants: The Merchant Community in Leeds, 1700-1830. Manchester University Press, 1971.
Wrigley, E.A. Continuity, Chance and Change: The Character of the Industrial Revolution in England. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Wrigley, E.A. Energy and the English Industrial Revolution. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Wrigley, E.A. “The Supply of Raw Materials in the Industrial Revolution.” Economic History Review 15, no. 1 (1962): 1-16.
2 The First Installation Period
Allen, Robert C. The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Allen, Robert C. “The Industrial Revolution in Miniature: The Spinning Jenny in Britain, France, and India.” Journal of Economic History 69, no. 4 (2009): 901-927.
Ashton, T.S. The Industrial Revolution, 1760-1830. Oxford University Press, 1948.
Baines, Edward. History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain. H. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson, 1835.
Bairoch, Paul. Cities and Economic Development: From the Dawn of History to the Present. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Bagwell, Philip S. The Transport Revolution from 1770. B.T. Batsford, 1974.
Berg, Maxine. The Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820: Industry, Innovation, and Work in Britain. Routledge, 1994.
Berg, Maxine, and Pat Hudson. “Rehabilitating the Industrial Revolution.” Economic History Review 45, no. 1 (1992): 24-50.
Bogart, Dan. “The Transport Revolution in Industrializing Britain: A Survey.” In The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain, Volume 1: 1700-1870, edited by Roderick Floud, Jane Humphries, and Paul Johnson, 368-391. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Bogart, Dan. “Turnpike Trusts and the Transportation Revolution in 18th-Century England.” Explorations in Economic History 42, no. 4 (2005): 479-508.
Brewer, John. The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783. Harvard University Press, 1990.
Broadberry, Stephen, Bruce M.S. Campbell, Alexander Klein, Mark Overton, and Bas van Leeuwen. British Economic Growth, 1270-1870. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Cameron, Rondo. Banking in the Early Stages of Industrialization: A Study in Comparative Economic History. Oxford University Press, 1967.
Chaloner, W. H. “The Agricultural Activities of John Wilkinson, Ironmaster.” Agricultural History Review 5, no. 1 (1957): 48-51.
Chapman, S.D. The Cotton Industry in the Industrial Revolution. Macmillan, 1972.
Chapman, Stanley. “The Cost of Power in the Industrial Revolution in Britain: The Case of the Textile Industry.” Midland History 1, no. 2 (1971): 1-24.
Clapham, J.H. An Economic History of Modern Britain: The Early Railway Age, 1820-1850. Cambridge University Press, 1926.
Cottrell, P.L. Industrial Finance 1830-1914: The Finance and Organization of English Manufacturing Industry. Methuen, 1980.
Crafts, N.F.R. British Economic Growth during the Industrial Revolution. Oxford University Press, 1985.
Crafts, N.F.R., and C.K. Harley. “Output Growth and the British Industrial Revolution: A Restatement of the Crafts-Harley View.” Economic History Review 45, no. 4 (1992): 703-730.
Daunton, Martin. Progress and Poverty: An Economic and Social History of Britain 1700-1850. Oxford University Press, 1995.
Devine, T.M. The Tobacco Lords: A Study of the Tobacco Merchants of Glasgow and Their Trading Activities. Edinburgh University Press, 1975.
Dickinson, H.W. James Watt: Craftsman and Engineer. Cambridge University Press, 1936.
Dickinson, H.W., and Arthur Titley. Richard Trevithick: The Engineer and the Man. Cambridge University Press, 1934.
Emsley, Clive. British Society and the French Wars, 1793-1815. Macmillan, 1979.
Falkus, M.E.. “The British Gas Industry before 1850.” Economic History Review 20, no. 3 (1967): 494-508.
Fitton, R.S. The Arkwrights: Spinners of Fortune. Manchester University Press, 1989.
Fitton, R.S., and A.P. Wadsworth. The Strutts and the Arkwrights, 1758-1830: A Study of the Early Factory System. Manchester University Press, 1958.
Flinn, M.W. The History of the British Coal Industry, Volume 2: 1700-1830. Clarendon Press, 1984.
Freeman, Christopher, and Francisco Louçã. As Time Goes By: From the Industrial Revolutions to the Information Revolution. Oxford University Press, 2001.
Gilboy, Elizabeth W. “Demand as a Factor in the Industrial Revolution.” In The Causes of the Industrial Revolution in England, edited by R.M. Hartwell, 121-138. Methuen, 1967.
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Harvard University Press, 1979.
Hadfield, Charles. British Canals: An Illustrated History. David & Charles, 1966.
Hadfield, Charles. The Canal Age. David & Charles, 1968.
Hadfield, Charles, and A.W. Skempton. William Jessop, Engineer. David & Charles, 1979.
Harris, J.R. The British Iron Industry, 1700-1850. Macmillan, 1988.
Harris, J.R. Industrial Espionage and Technology Transfer: Britain and France in the Eighteenth Century. Ashgate, 1998.
Hills, Richard L. Power in the Industrial Revolution. Manchester University Press, 1970.
Hills, Richard L. James Watt, Volume 1: His Time in Scotland, 1736-1774. Landmark Publishing, 2002.
Hills, Richard L. James Watt, Volume 2: The Years of Toil, 1775-1785. Landmark Publishing, 2005.
Hills, Richard L. James Watt, Volume 3: Triumph through Adversity, 1785-1819. Landmark Publishing, 2006.
Hobsbawm, Eric J. Industry and Empire: The Birth of the Industrial Revolution. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968.
Hoppit, Julian. “Financial Crises in Eighteenth-Century England.” Economic History Review 39, no. 1 (1986): 39-58.
Hudson, Pat. The Industrial Revolution. Edward Arnold, 1992.
Hunt, E.H. “Industrialization and Regional Inequality: Wages in Britain, 1760-1914.” Journal of Economic History 46, no. 4 (1986): 935-966.
Hyde, Charles K. Technological Change and the British Iron Industry, 1700-1870. Princeton University Press, 1977.
Jones, E.L. Agriculture and the Industrial Revolution. Basil Blackwell, 1974.
King, Peter. “Customary Rights and Women’s Earnings: The Importance of Gleaning to the Rural Labouring Poor, 1750-1850.” Economic History Review 44, no. 3 (1991): 461-476.
Landes, David S. The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present. Cambridge University Press, 1969.
Langford, Paul. A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727-1783. Oxford University Press, 1989.
Lindert, Peter H., and Jeffrey G. Williamson. “English Workers’ Living Standards During the Industrial Revolution: A New Look.” Economic History Review 36, no. 1 (1983): 1-25.
Linebaugh, Peter. The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
MacLeod, Christine, and Alessandro Nuvolari. “Inventive Activities, Patents and Early Industrialization: A Synthesis of Research Issues.” Revista de Historia Industrial 52 (2013): 15-59.
Mantoux, Paul. The Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century: An Outline of the Beginnings of the Modern Factory System in England. Harper & Row, 1961.
McKendrick, Neil. “Josiah Wedgwood and Factory Discipline.” The Historical Journal 4, no. 1 (1961): 30-55.
McKendrick, Neil, John Brewer, and J.H. Plumb. The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England. Europa Publications, 1982.
Mitchell, B.R. British Historical Statistics. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Mokyr, Joel. The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850. Yale University Press, 2009.
Mokyr, Joel. The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. Oxford University Press, 1990.
Morgan, Kenneth. The Birth of Industrial Britain: Social Change, 1750-1850. Pearson Education, 2004.
Musson, A.E., and Eric Robinson. Science and Technology in the Industrial Revolution. Manchester University Press, 1969.
Neal, Larry. The Rise of Financial Capitalism: International Capital Markets in the Age of Reason. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
O’Brien, Patrick. “The Political Economy of British Taxation, 1660-1815.” Economic History Review 41, no. 1 (1988): 1-32.
Perez, Carlota. Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002.
Perez, Carlota. “Structural Change and Assimilation of New Technologies in the Economic and Social Systems.” Futures 15, no. 5 (1983): 357-375.
Pollard, Sidney. The Genesis of Modern Management: A Study of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. Edward Arnold, 1965.
Pratt, Edwin A. A History of Inland Transport and Communication in England. Kegan Paul, 1912.
Pressnell, L.S. Country Banking in the Industrial Revolution. Clarendon Press, 1956.
Price, Roger. The Economic Modernisation of France, 1730-1880. Croom Helm, 1975.
Randall, Adrian. Before the Luddites: Custom, Community and Machinery in the English Woollen Industry, 1776-1809. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Reed, M.C. Investment in Railways in Britain, 1820-1844. Oxford University Press, 1975.
Reynolds, Terry S. Stronger Than a Hundred Men: A History of the Vertical Water Wheel. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.
Richardson, Philip. The Structure of Capital during the Industrial Revolution Revisited: Two Case Studies from the Cotton Textile Industry. Economic History Review 42, no. 4 (1989): 484-503.
Rimmer, Gordon. Marshalls of Leeds, Flax-Spinners, 1788-1886. Cambridge University Press, 1960.
Robinson, Eric. “The Early Diffusion of Steam Power.” Journal of Economic History 34, no. 1 (1974): 91-107.
Roll, Eric. An Early Experiment in Industrial Organisation: Being a History of the Firm of Boulton & Watt, 1775-1805. Longmans, Green and Co., 1930.
Rose, Mary B. The Gregs of Quarry Bank Mill: The Rise and Decline of a Family Firm, 1750-1914. Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Rule, John. The Vital Century: England’s Developing Economy, 1714-1815. Longman, 1992.
Schumpeter, Joseph A. Business Cycles: A Theoretical, Historical, and Statistical Analysis of the Capitalist Process. McGraw-Hill, 1939.
Schofield, Robert E. The Lunar Society of Birmingham: A Social History of Provincial Science and Industry in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon Press, 1963.
Smiles, Samuel. Lives of the Engineers: The Steam Engine—Boulton and Watt. John Murray, 1865.
Smith, Alan. “Steam and the City: The Committee of Proprietors of the Birmingham Canal Navigation, 1767-1790.” Transactions of the Newcomen Society 49 (1977): 5-18.
Szostak, Rick. The Role of Transportation in the Industrial Revolution: A Comparison of England and France. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1991.
Thompson, E.P. The Making of the English Working Class. Victor Gollancz, 1963.
Timmins, Geoffrey. The Last Shift: The Decline of Handloom Weaving in Nineteenth-Century Lancashire. Manchester University Press, 1993.
Toynbee, Arnold. Lectures on the Industrial Revolution of the 18th Century in England. Longmans, Green, 1884.
Trinder, Barrie. The Making of the Industrial Landscape. J.M. Dent & Sons, 1982.
Tunzelmann, G.N. von. Steam Power and British Industrialization to 1860. Clarendon Press, 1978.
Turner, Michael. Enclosures in Britain 1750-1830. Macmillan, 1984.
Uglow, Jenny. The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
Unwin, George. Samuel Oldknow and the Arkwrights: The Industrial Revolution at Stockport and Marple. Manchester University Press, 1924.
Ward, J.R. The Finance of Canal Building in Eighteenth-Century England. Oxford University Press, 1974.
Ward-Perkins, C.N. The Commercial Crisis of 1793. Oxford University Press, 1952.
Williams, J.E. “Whitehaven in the Eighteenth Century.” Economic History Review 8, no. 3 (1956): 393-404.
Wilson, R.G. Gentlemen Merchants: The Merchant Community in Leeds, 1700-1830. Manchester University Press, 1971.
Wrigley, E.A. Continuity, Chance and Change: The Character of the Industrial Revolution in England. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Wrigley, E.A. Energy and the English Industrial Revolution. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Wrigley, E.A. “The Supply of Raw Materials in the Industrial Revolution.” Economic History Review 15, no. 1 (1962): 1-16.
2.1 The Casino Phase
Allen, R. C. (2009). The British industrial revolution in global perspective. Cambridge University Press.
Anderson, J. L. (2020). Capitalist intermediaries: Manchester merchants and southern slaveholders in the nineteenth century. University of Virginia Press.
Barker, H. (2016). Women, work and the industrial revolution: Female involvement in the English printing trades, c. 1700–1840. In H. Barker & E. Chalus (Eds.), Gender in eighteenth-century England: Roles, representations and responsibilities (pp. 81-100). Routledge.
Beckett, J. V. (1986). The aristocracy in England, 1660-1914. Blackwell.
Berg, M. (1994). The age of manufactures, 1700-1820: Industry, innovation and work in Britain (2nd ed.). Routledge.
Bogart, D. (2011). Did the Glorious Revolution contribute to the transport revolution? Evidence from investment in roads and rivers. The Economic History Review, 64(4), 1073-1112.
Chapman, S. D. (2006). The cotton industry in the industrial revolution (2nd ed.). Macmillan.
Crouzet, F. (2001). A history of the European economy, 1000-2000. University of Virginia Press.
Daunton, M. J. (1995). Progress and poverty: An economic and social history of Britain 1700-1850. Oxford University Press.
Edwards, J. R. (2018). A history of financial accounting (RLE accounting). Routledge.
Freeman, M., Pearson, R., & Taylor, J. (2012). Shareholder democracies? Corporate governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850. University of Chicago Press.
Gisborne, T. (1995). An enquiry into the duties of men in the higher and middle classes of society in Great Britain. (Original work published 1792). Oxford University Press.
Hadfield, C. (1968). The canal age (2nd ed.). David & Charles.
Harris, R. (2000). Industrializing English law: Entrepreneurship and business organization, 1720-1844. Cambridge University Press.
Hoppit, J. (1987). Risk and failure in English business 1700-1800. Cambridge University Press.
Hudson, P. (2014). The Industrial Revolution. Bloomsbury Academic.
Jacob, M. C. (2014). The first knowledge economy: Human capital and the European economy, 1750-1850. Cambridge University Press.
Kennedy, W. (1996). Industrial structure, capital markets, and the origins of British economic decline. Cambridge University Press.
King, S. (2003). Poverty and welfare in England, 1700-1850: A regional perspective. Manchester University Press.
Mokyr, J. (2009). The enlightened economy: An economic history of Britain 1700-1850. Yale University Press.
Murphy, A. L. (2013). The origins of English financial markets: Investment and speculation before the South Sea Bubble. Cambridge University Press.
Neal, L. (1998). The financial crisis of 1825 and the restructuring of the British financial system. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 80(3), 53-76.
O’Brien, P. (2017). The industrial revolution and British society. Cambridge University Press.
Owen, R. (1857). The life of Robert Owen was written by himself. Effingham Wilson.
Pearson, R. (2004). Insuring the industrial revolution: Fire insurance in Great Britain, 1700-1850. Ashgate.
Powell, K. (2017). The North West cotton industry and its workers in the industrial revolution. Routledge.
Quinn, S. (2012). Money, finance and capital markets. In R. Floud, J. Humphries, & P. Johnson (Eds.), The Cambridge economic history of modern Britain, Volume 1: 1700-1870 (pp. 147-174). Cambridge University Press.
Rodgers, B. (2019). Manchester: A brief history. The History Press.
Rose, M. B. (2000). Firms, networks and business values: The British and American cotton industries since 1750. Cambridge University Press.
Walker, T. (2001). Review of the events and opinions of the last century. (Original work published 1791). Manchester University Press.
Ward, J. R. (1974). The finance of canal building in eighteenth-century England. Oxford University Press.
Williamson, J. G. (2002). Coping with city growth during the British industrial revolution. Cambridge University Press.
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3 The Turning Point
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3.1 Turning Point – Manchester
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– Lloyd-Jones, Roger and M.J. Lewis. “Manchester and the Age of the Factory.” London, 1988.
– Manchester Mercury, 1790-1800.
– Manchester Church Wardens’ Accounts, Manchester Central Library Archives.
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4 Deployment Period
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Mokyr, Joel. The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
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5 Works that span the complete cycle
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Mazzucato, Mariana. The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths. Anthem Press, 2013.
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Perez, Carlota. “Technological Revolutions and Techno-Economic Paradigms.” Cambridge Journal of Economics 34, no. 1 (2010): 185-202.
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