The production and consumption of bar iron in early modern England and Wales. An estimate made of the bar iron production in England shows two periods when production grew rapidly, 1540-1620 and 1785-1810. Both of these were related to the adoption of new technology - the finery forge in the...

The warehouse of the world : commerce and production in the early modern Atlantic world -- The topography of the early modern iron trade, c. 1730 -- The international iron trade at a crossroads : Swedish and British debates, 1730-1760 -- An industrial revolution in iron technology, organisation...

This book looks at the one of the key commercial links between the Baltic and Atlantic worlds in the eighteenth century - the export of Swedish and Russian iron to Britain - and its role in the making of the modern world.