"piling up of various factors which triggered off a chain reaction."

It is indicated that Britain, in this period of time, was propitious for invention and expansion due to a number of determinants, such as, agricultural circumstances, population growth and hence availability of labour, capital and raw materials, improvements in transport, growth in overseas trade, willingness of capitalists to invest, non-conformists, its political system and the recently studied phenomena of proto-industrialisation. By no means is there an order of importance, as each and every one of these factors contributed to Britains ability and facility

&n from essaybank.co.uk bsp; The development of a substantially new transport system was a distinctive feature of the growing economy of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This development was a consequence of the growth of towns with their increasing demands for basic food and fuel supplies which had to be drawn from further afield. It can be said that without these improvements, the economy's richest natural resources may have remained inaccessible and underdeveloped.

The procedure of industrialisation entail that an Industrial Revolution took place in Britain. This is a notion, in itself, that causes speculation and confusion as it insinuates that there was radical change in a definable time period. This metaphor has long been recognised as misleading, because rather than be labelled a revolution, it should be more relevantly understood as a transition. Industrialisation can be seen as a culmination of movements already long underway as Heaton (1932) states that,

In the early 1970's, a fresh notion contributed to studies on the origins of industrialisation - this new phenomena has been labelled proto-industrialisation, that is the first phase of industrialisation. It marks the period between feudalistic and capitalist societies. It has been called rural industrialisation because it took place initially in areas of high ground and infertile soils where loose systems of inheritance and population growth created an increasingly proletarianised group whose livelihood could only be supported by manufacturing sidelines. Hence there existed a myriad of small workshops in Britain producing basic consumer goods. Proto-industries can be seen to have paved the way for the development of modern industrialisation, in that there was a reservoir of technical knowledge that could be adapted to modern industry, an abundance of capital from the proto-industrial merchants and an increase in population and hence it became cheaper to re-organise production in central workshops. This is a complex theory to interpret as it is relatively new and as it deals with regions which are difficult to define. It can therefore be said that the proto-industrialisation theory may be useful in understanding the transition to industrial capitalism in the whole of Britain, but not in individual regions.

"A revolution which continued for 150 years and had been in preparation for at least another 150 years may well seem to need a new label."

There are many reasons why other countries in Europe weren't the innovators of industrialisation. In the eighteenth century, many countries in Europe were preoccupied with the Napoleonic Wars (they didn't reach Britain). This involvement prevented them from developing their economies in a way that aided the process of industrialisation in Britain. Additionally, before the 1870's, Germany and Italy were predominantly fragmentations of agrarian states. This social and political disunity hindered the course of economic unity and development that Britain was following at the time. Furthermore, Britain was the first European country to become a colonial empire, thus gaining access to a larger availability of raw materials, enhancing its development, which the rest of Europe didn't gain until later.

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