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A New Estimate of British Coal Production, 1750-1850 Sidney Pollard The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 33, No. 2. May, 1980 , pp. 212-235. Stable URL: /sici?sici 0013-0117%座机电话号码%292%3A33%3A2%3C212%3AANEOBC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F The Economic History Review is currently published by Economic History Society. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTORs Terms and Conditions of Use, available at /about/terms.html. JSTORs Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at /journals/ehs.html. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed The JSTOR Archive is a trusted digital repository providing for long-term preservation and access to leading academic journals and scholarly literature from around the world. The Archive is supported by libraries, scholarly societies, publishers, and foundations. It is an initiative of JSTOR, a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help the scholarly community take advantage of advances in technology. For more information regarding JSTOR, please contact support@. Wed Aug 1 17:48:18 2007 A New Estimate of British CoalProduction, 1750-1850 BY SIDNEY POLLARD HERE has never been any doubt about the central importance of coalmining in the history of the British industrial revolution. Both the geography and the technology of the new industries, and indeed of industrial Britain as a T whole in that period, were clearly influenced by coal and possibly even dominated by it. In coalmining were to be found some of the earliest examples of capital concentration, advanced company organizatio