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Author : Great Britain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600002513
Author : Great Britain
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020708522
Discover the thriving industries that drove the growth of Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution. From textiles to iron and steel, this informative volume explores the innovative technologies and skilled workers that made Great Britain a global leader in industry. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Robert C. Allen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521868273
Why did the industrial revolution take place in 18th century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015015204509
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3348073995
Author : Ch. Whiting Baker
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9785874709082
Author : Priya Satia
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735221871
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE By a prize-winning young historian, an authoritative work that reframes the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and emergence of industrial capitalism by presenting them as inextricable from the gun trade "A fascinating and important glimpse into how violence fueled the industrial revolution, Priya Satia's book stuns with deep scholarship and sparkling prose."--Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies We have long understood the Industrial Revolution as a triumphant story of innovation and technology. Empire of Guns, a rich and ambitious new book by award-winning historian Priya Satia, upends this conventional wisdom by placing war and Britain's prosperous gun trade at the heart of the Industrial Revolution and the state's imperial expansion. Satia brings to life this bustling industrial society with the story of a scandal: Samuel Galton of Birmingham, one of Britain's most prominent gunmakers, has been condemned by his fellow Quakers, who argue that his profession violates the society's pacifist principles. In his fervent self-defense, Galton argues that the state's heavy reliance on industry for all of its war needs means that every member of the British industrial economy is implicated in Britain's near-constant state of war. Empire of Guns uses the story of Galton and the gun trade, from Birmingham to the outermost edges of the British empire, to illuminate the nation's emergence as a global superpower, the roots of the state's role in economic development, and the origins of our era's debates about gun control and the "military-industrial complex" -- that thorny partnership of government, the economy, and the military. Through Satia's eyes, we acquire a radically new understanding of this critical historical moment and all that followed from it. Sweeping in its scope and entirely original in its approach, Empire of Guns is a masterful new work of history -- a rigorous historical argument with a human story at its heart.
Author : Council on Wage and Price Stability (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Government publications
ISBN : MINN:31951003053297V
Author : James Hamilton-Paterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781784972363
James Hamilton-Paterson turns his literary and analytical skills to the wider picture of Britain's lost industrial and technological civilisation.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Commerce
ISBN : CORNELL:31924015262797
Author : Robert C. Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191016783
The 'Industrial Revolution' was a pivotal point in British history that occurred between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and led to far reaching transformations of society. With the advent of revolutionary manufacturing technology productivity boomed. Machines were used to spin and weave cloth, steam engines were used to provide reliable power, and industry was fed by the construction of the first railways, a great network of arteries feeding the factories. Cities grew as people shifted from agriculture to industry and commerce. Hand in hand with the growth of cities came rising levels of pollution and disease. Many people lost their jobs to the new machinery, whilst working conditions in the factories were grim and pay was low. As the middle classes prospered, social unrest ran through the working classes, and the exploitation of workers led to the growth of trade unions and protest movements. In this Very Short Introduction, Robert C. Allen analyzes the key features of the Industrial Revolution in Britain, and the spread of industrialization to other countries. He considers the factors that combined to enable industrialization at this time, including Britain's position as a global commercial empire, and discusses the changes in technology and business organization, and their impact on different social classes and groups. Introducing the 'winners' and the 'losers' of the Industrial Revolution, he looks at how the changes were reflected in evolving government policies, and what contribution these made to the economic transformation. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : William Henry Bassano Court
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1954-01-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521092175
Professor Court investigates the economic life of Britain between 1750 and the onset of war in 1939.
Author : Gavin Weightman
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781555848859
“Anyone with a passing interest in economic history will thoroughly enjoy” this account of how industry transformed the world (The Seattle Times). In less than one hundred and fifty years, an unlikely band of scientists, spies, entrepreneurs, and political refugees took a world made of wood and powered by animals, wind, and water, and made it into something entirely new, forged of steel and iron, and powered by steam and fossil fuels. This “entertaining and informative” account weaves together the dramatic stories of giants such as Edison, Watt, Wedgwood, and Daimler with lesser-known or entirely forgotten characters, including a group of Japanese samurai who risked their lives to learn the secrets of the West, and John “Iron Mad” Wilkinson, who didn’t let war between England and France stop him from plumbing Paris (The Wall Street Journal). “Integrating lively biography with technological clarity, Weightman converts the Industrial Revolution into an enjoyably readable period of history.” —Booklist “Skillfully stitching together thumbnail sketches of a large number of inventors, architects, engineers, and visionaries. . . . Weightman expertly marshals his cast of characters across continents and centuries, forging a genuinely global history that brings the collaborative, if competitive, business of industrial innovation to life.” —The New York Times Book Review
Author : William Cunningham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : England
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030038422947
Author : Larry Neal,Jeffrey G. Williamson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 110701963X
The first volume of The Cambridge History of Capitalism provides a comprehensive account of the evolution of capitalism from its earliest beginnings. Starting with its distant origins in ancient Babylon, successive chapters trace progression up to the 'Promised Land' of capitalism in America. Adopting a wide geographical coverage and comparative perspective, the international team of authors discuss the contributions of Greek, Roman, and Asian civilizations to the development of capitalism, as well as the Chinese, Indian and Arab empires. They determine what features of modern capitalism were present at each time and place, and why the various precursors of capitalism did not survive. Looking at the eventual success of medieval Europe and the examples of city-states in northern Italy and the Low Countries, the authors address how British mercantilism led to European imitations and American successes, and ultimately, how capitalism became global.