Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; General maps and graphs; Introduction Mikulá¿ Teich and Roy Porter; 1. The British industrial revolution Phyllis Deane; 2. France François Crouzet; 3. The industrial revolution in Belgium Herman van der Wee; 4. Industrialisation in the Netherlands J. L. van Zanden; 5. German industrialisation Richard Tilly; 6. Switzerland Bruno Fritzsche; 7. Italy in the longue durée: the return of an old first-comer Carlo Poni and Giorgio Mori; 8. A latecomer: the modernisation of the Spanish economy, 1800-1990 Gabriel Tortella; 9. The industrial revolution in Sweden Bo Gustafsson; 10. Austria: industrialisation in a multinational setting Herbert Matis; 11. The industrial revolution: Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia Milan My¿ka; 12. Hungary: a semi-successful peripheral industrialisation Ivan T. Berend; 13. The industrial revolution and the countries of southeastern Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Ljuben Berov; 14. Industrial revolution in Russia Roger Munting; 15. Revolutions and continuities in American development William N. Parker; 16. The industrial revolution - an overview Sidney Pollard; Index.