Annotated Bibliography: The British Industrial Revolution

Annotated Bibliography

Allen, Robert C. The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Expands on Davis?s publication from 1979. Continues and broadens the debate over the influences of trade expansion and the British Industrial Revolution. Adds substantial primary resources to counter the publications of Eric Williams from 1944. Identifies specific raw materials and evaluates the production cost, labor wages, and mechanized improvements.

Brenner, Robert. Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders, 1550-1653. New York: Verso publishing, 2003.

Davis, Ralph. The industrial revolution and British overseas trade.
Knick, and N. F. R. Crafts. 2000. ?Simulating the Two Views of the British Industrial Revolution?. The Journal of Economic History 60 (3). Cambridge University Press: 819?41.

The author has several publications, discussion papers and lectures involving the influences of the British industrial revolution and the relationship to slavery. His publications are a unique part of the historiography of the relationship between the industrial revolution and slavery. The series offers and economic lens from a British point of view.

Harley, C. Knick. Slavery, the British Atlantic Economy and the Industrial Revolution. Discussion papers in Economic and Social History, 113. University of Oxford, 2013.

Additional discussion paper provides further challenges to Eric Williams?s publication from 1944 along with several publications of the economic impact of slavery on the British Atlantic economy. The reference list is abundant in relevant publications of the Historiography of Slavery and British Industrial Revolution.

Hobsbawm, Eric. Industry and Empire: The Birth of the Industrial Revolution. London: Penguin Press,
1989. ?Slave-raiders and Middlemen, Monopolists and Free traders: The Supply of Slaves for the Atlantic Trade in Dahomey C. 1715-1850?. The Journal of African History 30 (1). Cambridge University Press: 45?68.

Law publication discusses the history of Africa from the lens of Africans. It is an excellent breakdown of the military, economic, and political lenses along with providing additional research information. In the study of the history of the British industrial revolution it is vital to understand the value of the slave trade in each step from the obtaining of a slave to the implementation of the assets. Law?s article details the business of slavery and war during the critical development of the British rise to power.

Fraginals, Manuel Moreno, Herbert S. Klein, and Stanley L. Engerman. 1983. ?The Level and Structure of Slave Prices on Cuban Plantations in the Mid-nineteenth Century: Some Comparative Perspectives?. The American Historical Review 88 (5). Oxford University Press, American Historical Association: