The Early Industrial Revolution: Britain in the Eighteenth Century |
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Contents
List of Figures | 8 |
The Growth of Population | 23 |
1 Long Term Population Change | 24 |
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agriculture areas Arkwright Bank bankers became Birmingham Boulton Boulton and Watt Bristol Britain British built canal capital Carron Company cent centres cloth coal Coalbrookdale coalfield cotton crops demand E. A. Wrigley early Industrial Revolution East economic Edinburgh eighteenth century enclosure England and Wales English expansion exports factory farmers farming firms furnaces Glasgow growing Highlands houses husbandry important improved increasing indus industrialising iron industry labour Lancashire land late Leeds linen Liverpool London Manchester manufacturers merchants Midlands million mills nineteenth century Norwich Nottinghamshire open-field organisation output parish population ports pre-industrial production provincial rapidly regional rise river role rural Scotland Scottish seventeenth century Sheffield Source South Wales spinning Staffordshire steam engines supply T. S. Ashton textile Thames tons towns transport turnpike road turnpike trusts tury villages waggon water frame Weald West Midlands West Riding whilst wide wool woollen Yorkshire