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1990 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Proto-Industrialization: The First Phase of Industrialization?
Author : L. A. Clarkson
Published in: The Industrial Revolution A Compendium
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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In the early 1970s an ugly new word — ‘proto-industrialization’ — entered the literature of economic history and since then has rapidly colonized books, articles and even undergraduate essays, spawning additional abstractions as it goes along. A new historical generalization had arrived, chiefly through the efforts of Franklin Mendels [64].