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Kristine Bruland looks at the Norwegian experience to show how a technological infrastructure was created, and suggests that much of this was due to the efforts of British machine makers who from the mid 1840s vigorously sought foreign markets for the new technology of the industrial revolution.

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List of tables; List of figures; Preface; Map showing location of firms; 1. Technology and European growth; 2. The historiography of European industrialization; 3. Britain and Norway, 1800–1845: two transitions; 4. Acquisition of technologies by the Norwegian textile firms; 5. Flows of technological information; 6. British textile engineering and the Norwegian textile industry; 7. British agents of Norwegian enterprises; 8. British workers and the transfer of technology to Norway; 9. Interrelations among Norwegian firms; 10. The European dimension; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

British Technology and European Industrialization

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 11/13/2003 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780521891554
      978-0521891554
      ISBN-10 0521891558
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      Economic history Manufacturing industries

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Kristine Bruland looks at the Norwegian experience to show how a technological infrastructure was created, and suggests that much of this was due to the efforts of British machine makers who from the mid 1840s vigorously sought foreign markets for the new technology of the industrial revolution.

      Table of Contents
      List of tables; List of figures; Preface; Map showing location of firms; 1. Technology and European growth; 2. The historiography of European industrialization; 3. Britain and Norway, 1800–1845: two transitions; 4. Acquisition of technologies by the Norwegian textile firms; 5. Flows of technological information; 6. British textile engineering and the Norwegian textile industry; 7. British agents of Norwegian enterprises; 8. British workers and the transfer of technology to Norway; 9. Interrelations among Norwegian firms; 10. The European dimension; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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