Episode 18: What Was the Industrial Revolution?

In this episode, we boil down three main strands of thought about the Industrial Revolution.

Was it about machines?

Or ideas?

Or mines?

Books:

Jeff Horn, Leonard N Rosenband, Merritt Roe Smith, eds., Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution (Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

Joel Mokyr, The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850 (The New Economic History of Britain Series)

Patrick O'Brien, ed, Industrialisation: Critical persepctives on the world economy, Vol. 1

Thanks to Jonathan Lear for the music, and Duncan Barton for the image.