Nation, state and the industrial revolution: the visible hand

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 The political economy of the early modern state -- chapter 3 The industrial revolution: a threat or a promise? -- chapter 4 Industrialization in Europe, part 1 -- chapter 5 Industrialization in Europe, part 2 -- chapter 6 Industrialization in the first Western offshoot -- chapter 7 Concluding remarks.

This book puts the industrial revolution in a political and institutional context of state-making and the creation of modern national states, demonstrating that industrial transformation was connected to state and military interests