jmherbenerNathan Rosenberg and L.E. Birdsell, How the West Grew Rich (New York: Basic Books, 1986).
http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/docs/pdf/Article_63.pdf
Thomas DiLorenzo, How Capitalism Saved America (New York: Crown Forum, 2004).
https://mises.org/journals/qjae/pdf/qjae8_1_6.pdf
McCloskey has written quite a bit about the industrial revolution. Here are a few examples:
http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/docs/pdf/Article_62.pdf
http://www.deirdremccloskey.org/articles/revolution.php
The cause of economic progress is not merely free trade. Free trade simply allows for an extension of the division of labor, which does raise productivity as people and places are rearranged into their areas of comparative advantage. But the steady improvements of living standards are the result of capital accumulation which requires saving by people and investing by entrepreneurs.