Variorum Collected Studies Technology and Industrialisation

A collection of 13 essays studying Britain, Japan, Europe, China, India and Australasia from 1700 to the present. The texts illustrate a "political economy" approach to industrial and technological history, demonstrating the relationship between technical and institutional transformations. These thirteen essays embrace case studies of Britain, Japan, Europe, China, India and Australasia and cover a period from circa 1700 to the present day. The author’s main intention is to illustrate a ’political economy' approach to industrial and technological history, to demonstrate the relations between technical and instutitional transformations, and to bring the history of technology into a wide historical perspective.