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The Industrial Revolution was not inevitable: it needed a set of very specific preconditions that only Britain, at that moment, actually had.

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innovation Where new things come from and how they spread: invention against diffusion, and being near the factory floor.

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  1. Bret Devereaux Ancient and military historian specialising in the economy…
    In my view the key takeaway here is just how contingent the industrial revolution was: the industrial revolution that occured required a number of very specific pre-conditions which were really on true on Great Britain in that period.

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