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The Industrial Revolution as a Global Conjuncture

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Arenas in Global History

Position Paper

Rejoinder

  • Patrick O’Brien on industrialization, little Britain and the wider world

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  • Journal:
    Journal of Global History / Volume 17 / Issue 1 / 2022
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 November 2021, pp. 151-158
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  • Patrick O’Brien has dedicated most of his career to studying British economic history, focusing on the Industrial Revolution, its antecedents, characteristics and consequences. He has always paid attention to long-term developments and never confined himself to strictly economic aspects. From the late 1990s onward, he increasingly turned ‘global’. His importance for global history cannot be overstated. His essay in this issue presents the outcome of his long intellectual journey. I will in this rejoinder try to assess his approach and his findings and comment on Patrick as a scholar and as a person. As we are close friends I will be critical.