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Energy and the English Industrial Revolution
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Edward Anthony Wrigley |
"The industrial revolution transformed the productive power of societies. It did so by vastly increasing the individual productivity, thus delivering whole populations from poverty. In this new accou… |
OL16976401W |
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End of the World Is Just the Beginning
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Peter Zeihan |
2019 was the last great year for the world economy.
For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want… |
OL26510694W |
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The Idea of Poverty
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Gertrude Himmelfarb |
Discusses the views of great thinkers from 1750 to 1850--including Adam Smith, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Paine, Edmund Burke, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, and Friedrich Engels--toward the conditi… |
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Working women, working men
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Joel Wolfe |
"Based on archival data on oral histories, work examines rise of Brazil's industrial working class by focusing on female and male textile and metallurgical workers in São Paulo. Analyzes interaction… |
OL4312466W |