The Industrial Revolution

In 1600, Britain wasn't different. I mean, it was different in certain respects, better in some worse than others. But there was no reason if you looked around the Europe in 1600, as I did it a preliminary chapter, Britain wasn’t where you would think an Industrial Revolution would spin up. Your best bet would have been France under Henry IV, who actually wanted to make the peasants richer. That all came to an end when Henry IV was assassinated in 1610 and was fairly shortly after it was succeeded immediately by Louis XIII, who was a boy. And that's what gave you the very unequal and unproductive society of 18th century France. In Britain, they had