First of all we have to look as to why is Britain associated with being the first state to industrialize? One answer to this question is that Britain by far has more of everything. To be more specific Britain’s per capita income is larger compared to other countries. In the period associated with industrialization we see that Britain’s economy does not have Guilds any longer compared to France that had a law banning outside manufacturing, and it only allowed manufacturing within guilds. The eliminatio

1. Each country had a sufficient amount of coal.

When we look at countries in the industrialized period we see Britain as the country that started with industrialization, because of the factors we discussed before. Countries following Britain, which industrialized, and some who didn’t or where late by doing so had there own particular reasons for industrialization or in the case of the no-shows non-industrialization. Greschenkron’s approach to industrialization is broad and does not coincide to the reasons Cameron gives. I say this because the impression I got from Cameron was that countries that had natural resources had the upper hand in industrializing faster. I also got the notion that implementation of technology in the right way had a significant impact. Other important factors such as education, political situations and so forth had a considerable impact on industrialization. Britain compared to other nations industrialized or not had the upper hand in all aspects those it helped it become the first industrialized nation, which many nations followed. Nations who where latecomers probably didn’t poses the traits England did (like Coal) so they suffered economically. In the no-show states two common characteristics prevail. The lack of natural resources and the political situation; for instance in Portugal the lack of natural resources caused it to be a backward nation. In Russia Serfdom still prevailed while industrialization was taking place, which slowed the pace of industrialization in that country.

The early-industrialized countries quickly catch up. We see that a few factors affect these countries. Cameron shows that all the early-industrialized countries had a few things in common, and they are as follows:

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