The Industrial Revolution: The State, Knowledge and Global Trade

Title Page\nCopyright Page\nContents\nList of Figures\nList of Graphs and Tables\nAcknowledgements\nContents\nIntroduction\nChapter 1 Debt: Trade, Finance and European War\n	The Restoration and the institutionalization of republicanism\n	‘Barbarous Tyranny of the Hollanders’: The Dutch wars and fiscal reform\nChapter 2 ‘The Greatest Dominion of the World’: Trade and Textiles\n	Quality, trade and regulation\n	Woollen textiles\n	Nurturing industry: France and the 1674 scheme of trade\nChapter 3 Silver and Slaves: Britain and the Atlantic World\n	Early colonial policy and the establishment of the Board of Trade and Plantations in 1696\n	South American silver and African sweat: The work of the Board of Trade and Plantations\nChapter 4 South Asian ‘Weeds’: The Balance of Trade and Textiles\n	The ‘Golden-fleece’: Foreign skills and industrial development\nChapter 5 State Protection and Industrial Development\n	The 1713 Anglo-French Trade Treaty and establishment of eighteenth-century oeconomic policy\nChapter 6 The State as Arbiter of Production\nChapter 7 Balancing Tax and Industry: The Regulation of Domestic Manufactures\nChapter 8 Culture and Industry\n	Vultures of production\n	Fen drainage and knowledge\n	Textile design\n	Textile quality\nChapter 9 Technological Innovation and Industry\n	Cotton textiles\n	Metals\n	Energy and steam\nChapter 10 Fiscal Pressure and Industry\n	Degeneration and reform: The state and the new industries\n	Irish industry and trade\n	The 1786 Anglo-French Trade Treaty\n	Anglo-French war and taxation\nChapter 11 The Lived Experience: Food and Labour\n	‘Broken in upon and violated’: Industry and labour\n	The Combination Acts\nChapter 12 The Rise of Political Economy during the Industrial Revolution\n	Deregulation: The market as arbiter of production\n	The world upside down\n	The consolidation of the income tax, free trade and a small state\nEpilogue\nNotes\nBibliography\n	Abbreviations\n	Primary sources\n	Secondary sources\nIndex