Exceptionalism and Industrialisation: Britain and Its European Rivals, 1688 1815 Book

	Introduction : was British industrialisation exceptional?	1
Pt. I	The origins of British primacy
1	Britain's economic ascendancy in a European context	15
2	Comparative patterns of colonial trade : Britain and its rivals	35
Pt. II	Agriculture and industrialisation
3	European farmers and the British 'agricultural revolution'	69
4	Precocious British industrialisation : a general-equilibrium perspective	86
Pt. III	Technological change
5	The European origins of British technological predominance	111
6	Invention in the industrial revolution : the case of cotton	127
7	Continental responses to British innovations in the iron industry during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries	145
Pt. IV	Institutions and growth
8	The monetary, financial and political architecture of Europe, 1648-1815	173
9	Towards the comparative fiscal history of Britain and France during the 'long' eighteenth century	191
10	Money and economic development in eighteenth-century England	216
Pt. V	War and hegemony
11	Naval power : what gave the British Navy superiority?	235
	Institutional change and British supremacy, 1650-1850 : some reflections	261
	Laudatio patritii. Patrick O'Brien and European economic history	283