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Tables of Contents for The Birth of Industrial Britain
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
An introduction to the series
vii
 
Note on referencing system
viii
 
Acknowledgments
viii
 
PART ONE: THE BACKGROUND
1
4
The Birth of Industrial Britain
1
4
PART TWO: ANALYSIS
5
85
Population Growth
5
11
Emigration and immigration
7
1
Malthus and demographic theory
7
1
Mortality
8
3
Fertility
11
3
Was Malthus right?
14
1
Scotland
14
2
Agriculture
16
12
Agrarian society
17
2
Agricultural innovation
19
4
Parliamentary enclosure
23
5
Domestic Industry and Proto-Industrialization
28
11
Work in domestic industry
30
3
The theory of proto-industrialization
33
1
Proto-industrialization assessed
34
5
Factory Production and the Textile Industries
39
10
The technology of spinning and weaving
41
2
Factory work
43
3
Opposition to factory work
46
2
Factory labour in context
48
1
Coal and Iron
49
9
Output and regional distribution
50
2
The technology of coalmining
52
2
The technology of ironmaking and steelmaking
54
2
Consumption and markets
56
2
Entrepreneurs, Capital and Business Enterprise
58
10
Fixed capital
60
2
The web of credit
62
3
Banking
65
3
Foreign Trade
68
10
Ports and docks
70
2
The wealth of the empire
72
1
Exports and economic growth
73
2
Commercial institutions
75
3
Internal Transport
78
12
The development of waterways
78
3
The development of road transport
81
3
An integrated transport network?
84
1
The emergence of railways
85
2
The impact of railways
87
3
PART THREE: ASSESSMENT
90
4
Conclusion
90
4
PART FOUR: DOCUMENTS
94
26
Glossary
120
4
Bibliography
124
12
Maps
136
3
Index
139