A Short History Of The British Industrial Revolution

Author : Emma Griffin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781352003116

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A Short History of the British Industrial Revolution by Emma Griffin Pdf

The industrial revolution stands out as a key event not simply in British history, but in world history, ushering in as it did a new era of sustained economic prosperity. But what exactly was the 'industrial revolution'? And why did it occur in Britain when it did? Ever since the expression was coined in the 19th century, historians have been debating these questions, and there now exists a large and complex historiography concerned with English industrialisation. This short history of the British Industrial Revolution, aimed at undergraduates, sets out to answer these questions. It will synthesise the latest research on British industrialisation into an exciting and interesting account of the industrial revolution. Deploying clear argument, lively language, and a fresh set of organising themes, this short history revisits one of the most central events in British history in a novel and accessible way. This is an ideal text for undergraduate students studying the Industrial Revolution or 19th Century Britain.

Author : Patrick O'Brien,Roland Quinault
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 052143744X

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The Industrial Revolution and British Society by Patrick O'Brien,Roland Quinault Pdf

This text is a wide-ranging survey of the principal economic and social aspects of the first Industrial Revolution.

Author : Robert C. Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9780198706786

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The Industrial Revolution by Robert C. Allen Pdf

"The Industrial Revolution was one of the great, transforming events of world history. Robert C. Allen explains what happened during this period, and why. He asks why the revolution occured in Britain rather than other countries, and looks at the impact of changing technology and business organizations on contemporary social structures."--Publisher's description.

Author : William J. Ashworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Industrial revolution
ISBN : 1474286194

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The Industrial Revolution by William J. Ashworth Pdf

"The British Industrial Revolution has long been seen as the spark for modern, global industrialization and sustained economic growth. Indeed the origins of economic history, as a discipline, lie in 19th-century European and North American attempts to understand the foundation of this process. In this book, William J. Ashworth questions some of the orthodoxies concerning the history of the industrial revolution and offers a deep and detailed reassessment of the subject that focuses on the State and its role in the development of key British manufactures. In particular, he explores the role of State regulation and protectionism in nurturing Britain's negligible early manufacturing base. Taking a long view, from the mid 17th century through to the 19th century, the analysis weaves together a vast range of factors to provide one of the fullest analyses of the industrial revolution, and one that places it firmly within a global context, showing that the Industrial Revolution was merely a short moment within a much larger and longer global trajectory. This book is an important intervention in the debates surrounding modern industrial history will be essential reading for anyone interested in global and comparative economic history and the history of globalization."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : D. C. Coleman
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1992-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826434180

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Myth, History and the Industrial Revolution by D. C. Coleman Pdf

Tourists are today urged to visit the 'birthplace of the Industrial Revolution', packaged as part of 'a glorious heritage'. Half a century and more ago the picture was very different. Then the Industrial Revolution was commonly treated as having been a social catastrophe which had brought 'a new barbarism' to the country. Donald Coleman traces the history of the term 'Industrial Revolution' and the uses to which it has been put. Originating in European radical Romanticism, popularised in English by Arnold Toynbee in the 1 880s, it has achieved, with its meaning transformed, the status of potent myth in the nation's history. The book examines industrial revolutions real and imaginary; illuminates some of the activities of businessmen engaged therein; considers attitudes towards the businessmen who have thus come to occupy the historical stage; and discusses the academic study of business history -- a subject hardly imaginable without the Industrial Revolution. In the course of investigating these inter-related topics, the volume as a whole offers valuable insights into the ways in which economic history has been written and the concepts which have been invented and deployed in an effort to understand a central event in British history. This book provides an excellent introduction to the subject.

Author : Phyllis Deane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521296099

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The First Industrial Revolution by Phyllis Deane Pdf

This book identifies the strategic changes that affected Britain from 1750-1850.

Author : E. Royston pike
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136612756

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Human Documents of the Industrial Revolution In Britain by E. Royston pike Pdf

First Published in 2005. So many books have been written on the Industrial Revolution in Britain that it may be thought that there is hardly room for another. The present volume is an attempt to go some way towards filling what must surely appear to be a somewhat surprising gap in the literature. Its aim and purpose is to enable the men and women—and, let it be said, the children and young people—who lived in and through the Industrial Revolution in this country and who had their part, large or small, in its development and helped to give it direction and impetus, to describe their experiences in their own words. All the documents quoted are original documents, prepared and written and set down in print when the Revolution was actually going on.

Author : Michael Walter Flinn
Publisher : London : Longmans
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCSC:32106000861937

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Origins of the Industrial Revolution by Michael Walter Flinn Pdf

Author : G. D. H. Cole
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0415265649

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A Short History of the British Working Class Movement: 1789-1848 by G. D. H. Cole Pdf

This volume 1 of the set A Short History of the British Working Class Movement (1937). The volumes reprinted here provide a general narrative of the history of the working class movement in all its main aspects - Trade Unions, Socialism and Co-operatives. The historical focus is upon the latter part of the eighteenth century, set against a background of economic and social history.

Author : Joel Mokyr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0429494564

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The British Industrial Revolution by Joel Mokyr Pdf

"The Industrial Revolution remains a defining moment in the economic history of the modern world. But what kind and how much of a revolution was it? And what kind of ?moment? could it have been? These are just some of the larger questions among the many that economic historians continue to debate. Addressing the various interpretations and assumptions that have been attached to the concept of the Industrial Revolution, Joel Mokyr and his four distinguished contributors present and defend their views on essential aspects of the Industrial Revolution. In this revised edition, all chapters?including Mokyr's extensive introductory survey and evaluation of research in this field?are updated to consider arguments and findings advanced since the volume's initial 1993 publication. Like its predecessor, the revised edition of The British Industrial Revolution is an essential book for economic historians and, indeed, for any historian of Great Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Pat Hudson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474225489

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The Industrial Revolution by Pat Hudson Pdf

This is an introduction to the Industrial Revolution which offers an integrated account of the economic and social aspects of change during the period. Recent revisionist thinking has implied that fundamental change in economic, social and political life at the time of the Industrial Revolution was minimal or non-existent. The author challenges this interpretation, arguing that the process of revision has gone too far; emphasizing continuity at the expense of change and neglecting many historically unique features of the economy and society. Elements given short shrift in many current interpretations are reassigned their central roles.

Author : Robert C. Allen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107469679

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The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective by Robert C. Allen Pdf

Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows that in Britain wages were high and capital and energy cheap in comparison to other countries in Europe and Asia. As a result, the breakthrough technologies of the industrial revolution - the steam engine, the cotton mill, and the substitution of coal for wood in metal production - were uniquely profitable to invent and use in Britain. The high wage economy of pre-industrial Britain also fostered industrial development since more people could afford schooling and apprenticeships. It was only when British engineers made these new technologies more cost-effective during the nineteenth century that the industrial revolution would spread around the world.

Author : Hourly History
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1797454986

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The Industrial Revolution: A History from Beginning to End by Hourly History Pdf

The Industrial RevolutionThe Industrial Revolution which took place in Great Britain between the middle of the eighteenth century and the middle of the nineteenth transformed British industry and society and made Great Britain the most powerful nation in the world. The Industrial Revolution didn't happen due to one, single factor but rather to a number of separate yet related developments which interacted to change the world profoundly and completely. Improvements in the production of iron allowed the construction of efficient, reliable steam engines. These steam engines were then used in the production of iron to improve the quality and quantity of iron production even further. Manufacturing became concentrated in factories filled with automated machinery while canals and improved roads allowed raw materials to be brought to these factories and for finished products to be distributed.Inside you will read about...✓ Transport and the Rise of Global Trade✓ The Iron Heart of the Industrial Revolution✓ The Power of Steam✓ The Lives of Workers during the Industrial Revolution✓ The Rise of Labor MovementsAnd much more!During the the Industrial Revolution, people became used to the availability of cheap, mass-produced items transported to the point of sale from other parts of the country or even other parts of the world. However, people also became used to living in large cities and working in factories and mills, often for meager wages and in dangerous and exhausting conditions. Progress made a small number of people very wealthy, but it also condemned a large portion of the British population to living and working in danger and squalor. Opposition to the Industrial Revolution came from skilled workers who saw their jobs being replaced by machines and from influential poets who deplored the loss of what they regarded as an idyllic, rural, agrarian way of life. This opposition was brutally repressed, and even those who tried to champion the rights of workers sometimes found themselves under attack by the British Army. The Industrial Revolution changed almost everything about the British way of life, and it spread from Great Britain to most of the developed countries of the world. This is the story of a revolution which continues to affect all of us in the modern world.

Author : Emma Griffin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300151800

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Liberty's Dawn by Emma Griffin Pdf

DIVThis remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. The Industrial Revolution brought not simply misery and poverty. On the contrary, Griffin shows how it raised incomes, improved literacy, and offered exciting opportunities for political action. For many, this was a period of new, and much valued, sexual and cultural freedom./divDIV /divDIVThis rich personal account focuses on the social impact of the Industrial Revolution, rather than its economic and political histories. In the tradition of best-selling books by Liza Picard, Judith Flanders, and Jerry White, Griffin gets under the skin of the period and creates a cast of colorful characters, including factory workers, miners, shoemakers, carpenters, servants, and farm laborers./div

Author : Peter Mathias
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780415266727

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The First Industrial Nation by Peter Mathias Pdf

The industrial revolution of Britain is recognized today as a model for industrialization all over the world. Now with a new introduction by the author, this book is widely renowned as a classic text for students of this key period.