Was the Industrial Revolution Necessary?

Graeme Donald Snooks is Coghlan Professor of Economic History at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University. He has published widely on a number of central issues in economic history and is editor of a number of prestigious book series and journals.

• List of Contents List of Tables List of Figures Preface 1. New Perspectives on the Industrial Revolution Graeme Donald Snooks 2. The Classical Economists, the Stationary State, and the Industrial Revolution E.A. Wrigley 3. Great Waves of Economic Change: the Industrial Revolution in Historical Perspective 1000 to 2000 Graeme Donald Snooks 4. What Was the Rate of Economic Growth During the Industrial Revolution R.V. Jackson 5. The Industrial Revolution and the Genesis of the Male Breadwinner Stephen Nicholas and Deborah Oxley 6. The Industrial Revolution Revisited Stanley L. Engerman Notes Select Bibliography Index