Alan BirchEconomic HIstory of the British Iron and Steel Industry
PART , 1. The British iron and steel industry 1760-1879 2. Iron in the
economy of England and Wales in the eighteenth century 3. The rise of the
coke-iron industry 4. The British iron industry during the Napoleonic wars
5. Ironworks and ironmasters during the industrial revolution 6. The
ironmasters' associations in the early nineteenth century PART 2 7. The
expansion of the industry, 1788-1880 8. The regional development of the
industry, 1788-1880 9. The advance of technology in the wrought iron
industry 10. The growth of large-scale industry: capital and enterprise in
the iron and steel industry in the nineteenth century 11. The iron trade
12. The ironworkers PART 3 13. The process of supersession: the age of
steel 14. The development of mild steel 15. The new factors of industrial
location: ores for steel 16. The triumph of steel over wrought iron