Why Did We Choose to Industrialize?: Montreal, 1819-1849volume 28

by Robert C.H. Sweeny

The choice to industrialize has changed the world more than any other decision in human history. And yet the three prevailing explanations - the technical (new energy sources), the Marxist (new social relations), and the neo-liberal (people became more industrious) - are inadequate in making sense of this fundamental change. In mid-nineteenth-century Montreal, as in other early industrializing societies, change occurred as a result of the choices...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773545387
• ISBN13: 9780773545380
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"