《重说工业革命的经济史》内容简介

　　本书为读者呈现了有关工业革命的最新研究，并为未来的研究指明了方向。

　　工业革命一直是经济史教学的核心内容，也是研究西欧商业扩张、工厂崛起、煤铁生产、劳动无产阶级化、工业资本主义的诞生和全球传播的历史关键。然而，近年来，人们对工业革命的看法发生了巨大变化。

　　本书通过运用跨学科的研究方法，结合对消费、物质文化、科技和文化历史的研究，从更广泛的全球视角出发，为基于使技术创新和知识传播成为可能的全球互动之上的工业革命作出了解释。通过这一新的视角，我们可以清楚地看到，工业化进程实际上比我们此前了解地开始得更早，持续的时间也更长。

　　通过反思过去一代经济历史学家关注的主要问题，本书为读者呈现了有关工业革命的最新研究，并为未来的研究指明了方向。

　　工业革命真的存在吗，当时的人如何看待工业革命，一个经济体如何走出马尔萨斯陷阱，开始现代意义的经济增长？工业革命不是一次事件它没有明确的起点，但在18世纪中期到19世纪中期一百年的时间里，棉纺织业、钢铁业、运输业飞速进步，社会经济制度、社会组织方式、意识形态等各方面也完全改变。这些变动可能并不剧烈，但一百年之后回头去看，整个世界的面貌已经完全不同。工业革命并不只是蒸汽时代、棉花时代或者钢铁时代。它是一个真正的进步时代。《重说工业革命的经济史》通过四位历史学家的研究，反映了著名全球史学家马克辛·伯格在她长达40年的职业生涯中所关注的经济史领域，帮助读者了解是什么加速了工业革命，是什么为英国“赢得了世界”。

　　一个经济体如何走出马尔萨斯陷阱，开始现代意义的经济增长？

　　作者简介：

　　[挪]克丽丝廷·布鲁兰（KristineBruland）挪威奥斯陆大学经济史荣誉教授，曾任瑞士日内瓦大学经济史教授。研究方向为技术的传播，重点为前工业化时期的技术传播。

　　[荷]何安娜（AnneGerritsen），英国华威大学历史系教授，荷兰莱顿大学亚洲艺术系主任。哈佛大学博士。主要研究领域包括中国史、物质文化史、以及全球瓷器贸易史等。

　　[英]帕特·赫德森（PatHudson）英国卡迪夫大学历史学名誉教授，曾在英国利物浦大学教授经济史。英国工业革命经济史学家，英国经济史学会副会长，主要从经济、社会和文化层面研究工业化。

　　[意]乔治·列洛（GiorgioRiello），欧洲大学学院近代早期全球史主席，兼任华威大学全球历史与文化方向的教授。

　Introduction to the Economic History of the Industrial Revolution Retold

This book presents readers with the latest research on the Industrial Revolution and points the way for future research.

The Industrial Revolution has always been central to the teaching of economic history, and is the historical key to the expansion of commerce in Western Europe, the rise of the factory, the production of coal and iron, the proletarianization of labor, the birth and global spread of industrial capitalism. In recent years, however, perceptions of the Industrial Revolution have changed dramatically.

Using an interdisciplinary approach, combining studies of consumption, material culture, technology, and cultural history, the book explains the Industrial Revolution from a broader global perspective, based on the global interactions that made technological innovation and knowledge dissemination possible. Through this new perspective, we can clearly see that the process of industrialization actually began earlier and lasted longer than previously understood.

By reflecting on the major concerns of economic historians of the past generation, this book presents readers with the latest research on the Industrial Revolution and points the way for future research.

Did the Industrial Revolution really exist, what did people think of it at the time, and how did an economy get out of the Malthusian trap and start growing in the modern sense? The Industrial Revolution was not an event that had no clear starting point, but in the 100 years from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century, the cotton textile industry, the steel industry, and the transportation industry made rapid progress, and the socio-economic system, the social organization mode, and the ideology were also completely changed. These changes may not have been dramatic, but looking back a hundred years later, the world looks very different. The Industrial Revolution was not just the age of steam, cotton or steel. It was a truly progressive era. Through the research of four historians, The Economic History of the Industrial Revolution Retold reflects the field of economic history that renowned global historian Maxine Berg has focused on throughout her 40-year career, helping readers understand what accelerated the Industrial Revolution and what made Britain 'win the world'.

How does an economy get out of the Malthusian trap and start growing in the modern sense?

About the author:

KristineBruland is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at the University of Oslo, Norway, and formerly Professor of Economic History at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. His research direction is technology dissemination, with emphasis on technology dissemination in the pre-industrial period.

AnneGerritsen is Professor of History at the University of Warwick and head of the Department of Asian Art at Leiden University in the Netherlands. PhD from Harvard University. His research interests include Chinese history, material culture history, and the history of the global porcelain trade.

PatHudson is Emeritus Professor of History at Cardiff University and previously taught economic history at the University of Liverpool. He is an economic historian of the British Industrial Revolution and vice president of the British Economic History Society, focusing on the economic, social and cultural aspects of industrialization.

GiorgioRiello is Chair of Early Modern Global History at the European University College and Professor of Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick.

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