The Industrial Revolution: The State, Knowledge and Global Trade by William J Ashworth (review)

Ashworth's under-appreciated monograph on the excise tax and its role in regulating industry, generating income, and spreading knowledge has contributed much to this book, as has the work of Leonard Rosenband. In manufacturing category after category, Ashworth shows the key role of foreign expe...

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Published inTechnology and culture Vol. 59; no. 4; pp. 967 - 968
Main Author Horn, Jeff
Format Journal Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01.10.2018
Subjects
19th century
English language
Industrial development
Industrial Revolution
International trade
Knowledge
Technological change
England
United Kingdom > UK
France
China
Africa
South Asia
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Summary:Ashworth's under-appreciated monograph on the excise tax and its role in regulating industry, generating income, and spreading knowledge has contributed much to this book, as has the work of Leonard Rosenband. In manufacturing category after category, Ashworth shows the key role of foreign experts in improving English production and how important the tariff barriers and export subsidies offered by the state were in protecting old industries and developing new ones. [...]Ashworth's work points to the greater role of the British state in industrial development than its industrial rivals, at least until the early nineteenth century, when the island nation's advantages were in place.
ISSN:0040-165X
1097-3729
1097-3729
DOI:10.1353/tech.2018.0095