How To Read Industrial Britain

Author : Tim Cooper
Publisher : Random House
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781407027418

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How to Read Industrial Britain by Tim Cooper Pdf

From steam engines and suspension bridges to canals, factories and pubs, the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries transformed the social and material landscape of Britain. Yet how many of us know why our local pub looks the way it does or why a railway station might resemble a cathedral? This book reveals how, by 'reading' buildings, structures and townscapes, we can understand their context and significance for the society that created them. Author Tim Cooper uses themes including transport, education and religion to show how the geographical and architectural remains of industrial Britain have shaped us as a people. He sheds light on how and why the pioneers of the Industrial Revolution redesigned our towns and countryside, and draws on a wealth of British sites to explain, for instance, how canals were instrumental in the expansion of industry, or why affluent suburbs are usually situated in the west end of a town. This book is a joy for anyone wanting to investigate our industrial heritage and discover the secret history behind familiar, everyday features of our urban and rural landscapes.

Author : Hubert J. Pragnell
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781849947336

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Industrial Britain by Hubert J. Pragnell Pdf

A fascinating insight into Britain's industrial past as evidenced by its buildings, richly illustrated with intricate line drawings. Industrial Britain goes far beyond the mills and machine houses of the Industrial Revolution to give an engaging insight into Britain's industrial heritage. It looks at the power stations and monumental bridges of Britain, including the buildings and engineering projects associated with the distribution of manufactured goods – docks, canals, railways and warehouses. The gasworks Temples of mass production The mill Warehouse and manufactory Dock and harbour buildings Water power and water storage Waterways: canals and rivers The railway age Breweries and oast houses Markets and exchanges The twentieth century: industry on greenfield sites It's a story of industrial development, but also a story of its ultimate decline. As manufacturing has been increasingly replaced by services, new uses have been found for at least some of the country's great industrial buildings. Not least as containers for art and heritage, such as the Bankside Power Station (Tate Modern) and Salts Mill. Other buildings featured are still used as originally intended today, such as Smithfield Market in London and the Shepherd Neame brewery in Faversham. Illustrated throughout with over 200 original line drawings, Industrial Britain is a celebration of industrial architecture and its enduring legacy.

Author : Kenneth Morgan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317862093

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The Birth of Industrial Britain by Kenneth Morgan Pdf

The Industrial Revolution had a profound and lasting effect on socioeconomic and cultural conditions in Britain. The Birth of Industrial Britain examines the impact of early industrialisation on British society in the century before 1850, coinciding with Britain’s transition from a late pre-industrial economy to one based on industrialisation and urbanisation. This fully revised and updated second edition provides a comprehensive range of pedagogical material to support the text, including a Glossary of terms, people and parliamentary acts, new primary source documents and a brand new Chronology and ‘Who’s Who’ section. The Birth of Industrial Britain provides an essential up-to-date synthesis of the impact of the Industrial Revolution on British society for students at all levels.

Author : E. Royston pike
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Robert C. Allen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521868273

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

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 : Christine Counsell,Chris Steer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993-07-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0521424941

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Industrial Britain by Christine Counsell,Chris Steer Pdf

Industrial Britain presents in three main sections a broad view of Britain during the Industrial Age. The first covers industrial change, the birth of the factory, the age of iron, patterns of trade, the slave trade, farming and transport, factory acts, wealth, and images of laborers. The second discusses societal change during the Industrial Age, population growth, changing cities, religion, migration, science and technology, and the role of women. The final section explores power roles: the power of the people, restoration of Parliament, and chartism. An engaging book that involves students in the study of history by raising thought-provoking questions and by providing activities to reinforce the topics studied.

Author : Jodie Matthews
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781837720057

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The British Industrial Canal by Jodie Matthews Pdf

Thousands of literary, popular, non-fiction and archival texts since the eighteenth century document the human experience of the British industrial canal. This book traces networks of literary canal texts across four centuries to understand our relationships with water, with place, and with the past. In our era of climate crisis, this reading calls for a rethinking of the waterways of literature not simply as an antique transport system, but as a coal-fired energy system with implications for the present. This book demonstrates how waterways literature has always been profoundly interested in the things we dig out of the ground, and the uses to which they are put. The industrial canal never just connected parts of Britain: via its literature we read the ways in which we are in touch with previous centuries and epochs, how canals linked inland Britain to Empire, how they connected forms of labour, and people to water.

Author : Patrick O'Brien,Roland Quinault
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015015204509

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The Encyclopaedia Britannica by Hugh Chisholm Pdf

Author : Barrie Stuart Trinder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1859361757

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Britain's Industrial Revolution by Barrie Stuart Trinder Pdf

This important new book endeavors to explain the industrial revolution throughout the British Isles.

Author : Joseph Stubenrauch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198783374

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The Evangelical Age of Ingenuity in Industrial Britain by Joseph Stubenrauch Pdf

This work demonstrates that developments in technology, commerce, and infrastructure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were closely linked to theological shifts and changing modes of religious life as British evangelicals developed new methods of spreading the gospel and new forms of personal religious practice.

Author : Emma Griffin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350306981

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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 : Peter Mathias
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 52,8 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.

Author : William J. Ashworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Joel Mokyr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429963117

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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.