Making History

The Industrial Revolution

Welcome, listeners, to the inaugural episode of "Making History!" This week we talk through historiography of the Industrial Revolution! The books we discuss are below: Authors 1: N.F.R. Crafts and C.K. Harley. Crafts, N. F. R. British Economic Growth During the Industrial Revolution. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985. Harley, C. Knick. “British Industrialization Before 1841: Evidence of Slower Growth During the Industrial Revolution.” The Journal of economic history 42.2 (1982): 267–289.  Author 2: de Vries. de Vries, Jan. “The Industrial Revolution and the Industrious Revolution.” The Journal of economic history 54.2 (1994): 249–270. Author 3: Maxine Berg.  Berg, Maxine. The Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820 : Industry, Innovation, and Work in Britain. 2nd ed. London ; Routledge, 1994. Author 4: Joel Mokyr. Mokyr, Joel. The Enlightened Economy: an Economic History of Britain 1700-1850. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Author 5: Emma Griffin. Griffin, Emma. Liberty’s Dawn: a People’s History of the Industrial Revolution. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2013.