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Nation, State and the Industrial Revolution The Visible Hand
By Lars Magnusson
Copyright 2009
196 Pages
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Routledge
208 Pages
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Routledge
208 Pages
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Routledge
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The industrial revolution and the creation of the modern (national) state are two of the most important historical processes to have occurred in Europe during the 19th century. The state and other bodies of governance play an important role in the development of capitalist market societies since the 18th century. But modern market economies are to a large degree a product of the interplay between... Read more
1. Introduction 2. The Early Modern State 3. The construction of the myth of a laissez faire state 4. The State and the industrial revolution 5. Politics and industrial revolution in America 6. The Late-comers 7. Conclusion
Biography
Lars Magnusson is Professor and Chair of Economic History at Uppsala University, Sweden.
