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| − | + | The continuous growth of London’s industrial economy and population during the nineteenth century relied increasingly on “ghost acres” located outside of Britain.[https://books.google.ca/books?id=58A2wJmpvKgC&lpg=PP1&dq=pomeranz%20ghost%20acres%20great%20divergence&pg=PA275#v=onepage&q&f=false] While the British economy broke free from the long-standing organic restraints on development through an increasing dependence on coal to fuel industrialization, they continued to required large quantities other raw materials. By the second half of the nineteenth century many of the products consumed in London originated overseas. Consumer goods manufactured in factories in the Thames Estuary required raw materials imported from Canada, the United States, Jamaica, Peru, Brazil, Spain, West Africa, India, Ceylon, and New Zealand, among other locations. This historical research explores how the intersections between industry, science, consumer culture, empire, and markets in London transformed numerous environments around the globe through a series of interrelated case studies of London’s factories and their commodity chains. | |
| − | + | This wiki is a work in progress and has been largely developed by students working the Historical GIS Lab at the University of Saskatchewan under the direction of Dr. Jim Clifford. Dr. Jon Bath developed the Semantic MediaWiki. | |
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| − | + | -Danika Bonham | |
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Latest revision as of 15:39, 25 October 2016
The continuous growth of London’s industrial economy and population during the nineteenth century relied increasingly on “ghost acres” located outside of Britain.[1] While the British economy broke free from the long-standing organic restraints on development through an increasing dependence on coal to fuel industrialization, they continued to required large quantities other raw materials. By the second half of the nineteenth century many of the products consumed in London originated overseas. Consumer goods manufactured in factories in the Thames Estuary required raw materials imported from Canada, the United States, Jamaica, Peru, Brazil, Spain, West Africa, India, Ceylon, and New Zealand, among other locations. This historical research explores how the intersections between industry, science, consumer culture, empire, and markets in London transformed numerous environments around the globe through a series of interrelated case studies of London’s factories and their commodity chains.
This wiki is a work in progress and has been largely developed by students working the Historical GIS Lab at the University of Saskatchewan under the direction of Dr. Jim Clifford. Dr. Jon Bath developed the Semantic MediaWiki.
Students:
-Danika Bonham
-Steven Langlois
-Elise Lehmann