Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables and Figures ix
4. Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation: An Introduction 3
5. The Age of Manufactures: Knowledge, Making, and the Organisation of Production
6. Could Artisans Have Caused the Industrial Revolution? 23
7. ‘What Is Technology?’: An Enquiry into the Science of the Arts at the Dawn of Industrialisation 44
8. Silence and Secrecy in Britain's Eighteenth-Century Ceramics Industry 59
9. Is Small Beautiful? Workshop Organisation, Technology, and Production in South India, 1700–1960 72
10. An Outlook ‘wrapped up in flannel’: The Wool Textile Industry in Wales in the Early Twentieth Century 87
11. The Age of Machinery: Technology, Human Capital, and Political Economy
12. Rethinking Protoindustry: Human Capital and the Rise of Modern Industry 105
13. Machinery, Labour Absorption, and Small Producer Capitalism in the Comparative History of Industrialisation 127
14. The Mechanisation of English Cotton Textile Production and the Industrial Revolution 141
15. An Automatic Technology in British Industrialisation 161
16. The Age of Luxury: Consumption, Imagination, and Desire
17. Leo Africanus Presents Africa to Europeans 179
18. Trade Cards and the Art of Selling Manufacture, c. 1680–1800 198
19. Old and New Luxuries in Town and Country in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Netherlands 213
20. Threads of Empire: Indigenous Wares and Material Ecologies in the ‘Anglo-World’, c. 1780–1920 229
21. The Age of Global Trade: Goods, Markets, and Trade
22. Who Knew How? Visual Representations of the Ceramics Production Process on Porcelain Vessels 247
23. Factories before the Factory: The English East India Company's Textile Procurement in India and British Industrialisation, 1650–1750 262
24. Botany as Useful Knowledge: French Global Plant Collecting at the End of the Old Regime 276
25. Frictions of Empire: Colonial Bombay's Probate and Property Networks in the 1780s 290
26. Contributors 303
27. Index 312