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How the Industrial Revolution Changed the World: Interview with Economist Duncan Weldon

Tides of History

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Introduction

Economic history is about how people spend the vast bulk of their time working, interacting with each other. Understanding economic history means coming to grips with the fabric of everyday life and past experiences in the most profound possible ways. The industrial revolution irrevocably changed all of those things. And any story about the industrial revolution also has to be a story about the economy of britain because that's where it began.

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