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| List of figures | |
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| List of tables | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Opening Pandora's jar | |
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| Overview of the nature and structure of the book | |
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| A sketch of the argument | |
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| The limits to growth in organic economies | |
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| The views of the classical economists | |
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| The energy constraint | |
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| Production and reproduction | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The transition from an organic to an energy-rich economy | |
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| Agricultural growth, industrial growth, and transport improvements | |
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| Manpower productivity in agriculture | |
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| The energy revolution | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Favourable developments | |
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| Agricultural change and urbanisation | |
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| Urban growth | |
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| The consumer revolution | |
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| The agricultural system | |
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| The rise in agricultural output | |
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| The London effect | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Energy and transport | |
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| The history of energy consumption | |
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| Coal production and transport provision | |
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| Other improvements in transport facilities | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Occupational structure, aggregate income, and migration | |
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| Occupational structure and migration | |
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| Occupational change and aggregate income | |
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| Aggregate income trends and migration | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Production and reproduction | |
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| The components of population change | |
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| England in a wider setting: the concomitants of faster population growth | |
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| Regional diversity | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Retrospect of Part II as a whole | |
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| What set England apart from her neighbours | |
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| The timing and nature of change in the industrial revolution | |
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| Preliminary considerations | |
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| Relative growth rates | |
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| The escape from the constraints of an organic economy | |
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| The changing character of the growth surge | |
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| Why the growth surge continued | |
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| A summary of the character and timing of the changes which took place | |
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| Modernisation and the industrial revolution | |
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| Introductory comment | |
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| England and the Netherlands | |
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| The relationship between industrialisation and modernisation | |
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| National entities and lopsided growth | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Retrospective | |
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| The industrial revolution and energy | |
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| The energy revolution | |
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| Pandora's jar again | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |