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1) Enemy of all mankind: a true story of piracy, power, and history's first global manhunt

Author

Johnson, Steven

Publisher

Riverhead Books

Pub. Date

2020.

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"How did a single manhunt spark the modern era of multinational capitalism? Henry Avery was the seventeenth century's most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular--and wildly inaccurate--reports of his nefarious adventures. The British government offered enormous bounties for his capture, alive or (preferably) dead. But Steven Johnson argues that Avery's most lasting legacy was his inadvertent triggering of a new model for the global...

2) The industrial revolution

Author

Toynbee, Arnold

Series

Beacon paperbacks volume no. 32

Publisher

Beacon Press

Pub. Date

[1956]

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The subject of these lectures is the Industrial and Agrarian Revolution at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. Including chapters on England in 1760, the mercantile system and Adam Smith, the growth of pauperism and the future of the working classes. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these...

3) When the money runs out: the end of western affluence

Author

King, Stephen D

Publisher

Yale University Press

Pub. Date

[2013]

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"The Western world has experienced extraordinary economic progress throughout the last six decades, a prosperous period so extended that continuous economic growth has come to seem normal. But such an era of continuously rising living standards is a historical anomaly, economist Stephen D. King warns, and the current stagnation of Western economies threatens to reach crisis proportions in the not-so-distant future. Praised for the "dose of realism"...

4) An introduction to the industrial and social history of England

Author

Cheyney, Edward Potts

Series

European Political Economic and Security Issues Ser

Publisher

Macmillan

Pub. Date

1920

5) Empire of guns: the violent making of the Industrial Revolution

Author

Satia, Priya

Publisher

Penguin Press

Pub. Date

2018.

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A reframing of the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and the emergence of industrial capitalism presents them as inextricable from the gun trade and the story of disgraced Quaker gunmaker Samuel Galton.

6) Capitalism & Slavery

Author

Williams, Eric Eustace

Series

A Capricorn Book
Book collections on Project MUSE

Publisher

Capricorn Books

Pub. Date

[1966, c1944]

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Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, his profound critique became the foundation for studies of imperialism...