David S. Landes (Massachusetts Harvard University)

The Unbound Prometheus

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For over thirty years David Landes's Unbound Prometheus has offered an unrivalled history of the making of a modern, industrialised Europe. Now, in this updated edition, he takes the opportunity to reframe and reassert his original arguments in the light of debates about globalisation and comparative economic growth.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 590
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9780521534024
• ISBN-10: 052153402X
• Artikelnr.: 21390473

Autorenporträt

David Landes is Emeritus Professor of Economics and History at Harvard University and the author of The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the new edition
Preface to the original edition
1. Introduction
2. The industrial revolution in Britain
3. Continental emulation
4. Closing the gap
5. Short breath and second wind
6. The interwar years
7. Reconstruction and growth since 1945
8. Conclusion
9. Epilogue
Index.