Ruthless: A New History of Britain's Rise to Wealth and Power, 1660-1800 - Hardcover
by Edmond Smith
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Yale University PressISBN-13:9780300278514ISBN-10:300278519UPC:9780300278514Book Category:History, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:World, Europe, Economic HistoryBook Topic:Great BritainWeight:1.5521Product ID:SCVGEVVD4K
Ruthless: A New History of Britain's Rise to Wealth and Power, 1660-1800
A revelatory new history of Britain's industrial revolution and the exploitation that enabled it Was Britain's industrial revolution the result of its machines, which produced goods with miraculous efficiency? Was it the country's natural abundance, which provided coal for its engines, ores for its furnaces and food for its labourers? Or was it Britain's colonies, where a brutalized enslaved...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Yale University PressISBN-13:9780300278514ISBN-10:300278519UPC:9780300278514Book Category:History, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:World, Europe, Economic HistoryBook Topic:Great BritainWeight:1.5521Product ID:SCVGEVVD4K
Edmond Smith is professor of economic cultures at the University of Manchester, and the prize-winning author of Merchants: The Community That Shaped England's Trade and Empire, 1550-1650. Merchants was described as 'wonderfully wide-ranging and deeply-researched' by William Dalrymple, and 'a superb book' by Jerry Brotton.
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