Industrial Britain

Author : Hubert J. Pragnell
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : 47,9 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 : Robert C. Allen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Mike Mantin,Kirsti Bohata,Alexandra Jones,Steven Thompson
Publisher : Disability History
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526124319

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Disability in Industrial Britain by Mike Mantin,Kirsti Bohata,Alexandra Jones,Steven Thompson Pdf

This book examines disability and disabled people in British coalmining, an industry with high levels of injury and disease and where, as one outsider noted, streets 'thronged with the maimed and mutilated'.

Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015015204509

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The Encyclopaedia Britannica by Hugh Chisholm Pdf

Author : E. Royston pike
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : Joyce Burnette
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139470582

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Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain by Joyce Burnette Pdf

A major study of the role of women in the labour market of Industrial Revolution Britain. It is well known that men and women usually worked in different occupations, and that women earned lower wages than men. These differences are usually attributed to custom but Joyce Burnette here demonstrates instead that gender differences in occupations and wages were instead largely driven by market forces. Her findings reveal that rather than harming women competition actually helped them by eroding the power that male workers needed to restrict female employment and minimising the gender wage gap by sorting women into the least strength-intensive occupations. Where the strength requirements of an occupation made women less productive than men, occupational segregation maximised both economic efficiency and female incomes. She shows that women's wages were then market wages rather than customary and the gender wage gap resulted from actual differences in productivity.

Author : Jane Humphries
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139489287

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Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution by Jane Humphries Pdf

This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Jane Humphries illuminates working-class childhood in contexts untouched by conventional sources and facilitates estimates of age at starting work, social mobility, the extent of apprenticeship and the duration of schooling. The classic era of industrialisation, 1790–1850, apparently saw an upsurge in child labour. While the memoirs implicate mechanisation and the division of labour in this increase, they also show that fatherlessness and large subsets, common in these turbulent, high-mortality and high-fertility times, often cast children as partners and supports for mothers struggling to hold families together. The book offers unprecedented insights into child labour, family life, careers and schooling. Its images of suffering, stoicism and occasional childish pleasures put the humanity back into economic history and the trauma back into the industrial revolution.

Author : Peter Kirby
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843838845

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Child Workers and Industrial Health in Britain, 1780-1850 by Peter Kirby Pdf

A comprehensive study of the occupational health of employed children within the broader context of social, industrial and environmental change between 1780 and 1850.

Author : Peter Mathias
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : Michael Dintenfass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134937479

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The Decline of Industrial Britain by Michael Dintenfass Pdf

Michael Dintenfass provides a challenging account of Britain's economic performance since 1870. He combines a succinct, clearly-written survey of recent scholarly work in British economic and business history with an original interpretive alternative to the institutionalized accounts of Britain's relative decline. Dintenfass addresses both specifically economic questions and socio-historical questions to place Britain's economic history in its broadest context.

Author : Joel Mokyr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,5 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.

Author : Frank Dobbin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 052162990X

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Forging Industrial Policy by Frank Dobbin Pdf

This book explores 19th-century railroad policies in the United States, France, and Britain to identify the roots of nations' modern industrial policy styles.

Author : Priya Satia
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735221871

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Empire of Guns by Priya Satia Pdf

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 : Tim Cooper
Publisher : Random House
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,6 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.