First edition. 8vo. [10], 222 pp. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt on red ground, dust jacket. A near fine, notably bright copy. Cambridge, At the University Press, 1962.
‘Habakkuk’s major contribution was to the study of the rates of technological change in Britain and America in the 19th century and the reasons for the much more rapid development and use of manufacturing technology in the United States. In his book, American and British Technology in the Nineteenth Century (1962), American industrial development is roughly divided into two important stages, the period before the first wave of immigration in the 1840s, which laid the ground for future development, and the period after 1870 when abundant natural resources and rapid growth of market demand provided the stimulus for growth’ (New Palgrave).
