Energy and the English Industrial Revolution

Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Figures......Page 12
Tables......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 15
Opening Pandora’s jar......Page 17
Overview of the nature and structure of the book......Page 18
Part I A sketch of the argument......Page 23
1 The limits to growth in organic economies......Page 25
The views of the classical economists......Page 26
The energy constraint......Page 29
Production and reproduction......Page 33
Conclusion......Page 37
2 The transition from an organic to an energy-rich economy......Page 42
Agricultural change, industrial growth, and transport improvements......Page 44
Manpower productivity in agriculture......Page 49
The energy revolution......Page 52
Conclusion......Page 63
Part II Favourable developments......Page 69
3 Agricultural change and urbanisation......Page 71
Urban growth......Page 74
The consumer revolution......Page 84
The agricultural system......Page 89
The rise in agricultural output......Page 94
The London effect......Page 104
Conclusion......Page 106
The history of energy consumption......Page 107
Coal production and transport provision......Page 117
Other improvements in transport facilities......Page 124
Conclusion......Page 126
Occupational structure and migration......Page 129
Occupational change and aggregate income......Page 143
Aggregate income trends and migration......Page 151
Conclusion......Page 154
6 Production and reproduction......Page 156
1. Marriage......Page 160
2. Fertility......Page 164
3. Mortality......Page 167
England in a wider setting: the concomitants of faster population growth......Page 168
Regional diversity......Page 179
Conclusion......Page 188
Retrospect of Part II as a whole......Page 191
Part III What set England apart from her neighbours......Page 195
Preliminary considerations......Page 197
Relative growth rates......Page 203
The escape from the constraints of an organic economy......Page 209
The changing character of the growth surge......Page 212
Why the growth surge continued......Page 214
A summary of the character and timing of the changes which took place......Page 221
Introductory comment......Page 227
England and the Netherlands......Page 232
The relationship between industrialisation and modernisation......Page 241
National entities and lopsided growth......Page 244
Conclusion......Page 248
Part IV Retrospective......Page 253
The energy revolution......Page 255
Pandora’s jar again......Page 261
Appendix......Page 267
Bibliography......Page 274
Index......Page 284