Riello, Giorgio and O'Brien, Patrick (2004) Reconstructing the Industrial Revolution: analyses, perceptions and conceptions of Britain’s precocious transition to Europe’s first industrial society. Working Paper. Department of Economic History, London School of Economics, London.

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Abstract

The Industrial Revolution continues to be analysed by economic historians deploying the conceptual vocabularies of modern social science, particularly economics. Their approach which gives priority to the elaboration of causes and processes of evolution is far too often and superficially contrasted with post-modern forms of social and cultural history with their aspirations to recover the meanings of the Revolution for those who lived through its turmoil and for ‘witnesses’ from the mainland who visited the offshore economy between 1815-48. Our purpose is to demonstrate how three distinct reconstructions of the Revolution are only apparently in conflict and above all that a contextualised analysis of observations of travellers from the mainland and the United States provides several clear insights into Britain’s famous economic transformation.

Item Type:	Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper)
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D204 Modern History D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D901 Europe (General) D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HG Finance
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > History
Series Name:	Economic History working papers
Publisher:	Department of Economic History, London School of Economics
Place of Publication:	London
Date:	May 2004
Number:	84
Number of Pages:	59
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/35290

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