The Industrial Revolution
Author : T. S.. Ashton
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : T. S.. Ashton
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Southcliffe Ashton
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,46 MB
Release : 1986-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313250415
Author : Thomas S. Ashton
Publisher :
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 45,71 MB
Release : 1948
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Southcliffe Ashton
Publisher :
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 33,95 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher :
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 47,3 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN :
This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
Author : Hans-Joachim Voth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 37,43 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199241941
Did working hours in England increase as a result of the Industrial Revolution? Marx said so, and so did E. P. Thompson; but where was the evidence to support this belief? Literary sources are difficult to interpret, wage books are few and hardly representative, and clergymen writing about the sloth of their flock did little to validate their complaints. In this important and innovative study Hans-Joachim Voth for the first time provides rigorously analysed statistical data. He calls more than 2,800 witnesses to the bar of history to answer the question: 'what were you doing at the time of the crime?'. Using these court records, he is able to build six datasets for both rural and urban areas over the period 1750 to 1830 to reconstruct patterns of leisure and labour. Dr Voth is able to show that over this period England did indeed begin to work harder - much harder. By the 1830s, both London and the northern counties of England had experienced a considerable increase- about 20 per cent - in annual working hours. What drove the change was not longer hours per day, but the demise of 'St Monday' and a plethora of religious and political festivals.
Author : Pat Hudson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 13,65 MB
Release : 2014-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1474225489
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.
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Page : pages
File Size : 46,55 MB
Release : 1982-12
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ISBN : 9781860130786
Author : Lawrence A. Peskin
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 37,38 MB
Release : 2007-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801887505
"While much has been written about the industrial revolution," writes Lawrence Peskin, "we rarely read about industrial revolutionaries." This absence, he explains, reflects the preoccupation of both classical and Marxist economics with impersonal forces rather than with individuals. In Manufacturing Revolution Peskin deviates from both dominant paradigms by closely examining the words and deeds of individual Americans who made things in their own shops, who met in small groups to promote industrialization, and who, on the local level, strove for economic independence. In speeches, petitions, books, newspaper articles, club meetings, and coffee–house conversations, they fervently discussed the need for large-scale American manufacturing a half-century before the Boston Associates built their first factory. Peskin shows how these economic pioneers launched a discourse that continued for decades, linking industrialization to the cause of independence and guiding the new nation along the path of economic ambition. Based upon extensive research in both manuscript and printed sources from the period between 1760 and 1830, this book will be of interest to historians of the early republic and economic historians as well as to students of technology, business, and industry.
Author : Peter N Stearns
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 19,94 MB
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0813347300
The industrial revolution was the single most important development in human history over the past three centuries, and it continues to shape the contemporary world. With new methods and organizations for producing goods, industrialization altered where people live, how they play, and even how they define political issues. By exploring the ways the industrial revolution reshaped world history, this book offers a unique look into the international factors that started the industrial revolution and its global spread and impact. In the fourth edition, noted historian Peter N. Stearns continues his global analysis of the industrial revolution with new discussions of industrialization outside of the West, including the study of India, the Middle East, and China. In addition, an expanded conclusion contains an examination of the changing contexts of industrialization. The Industrial Revolution in World History is essential for students of world history and economics, as well as for those seeking to know more about the global implications of what is arguably the defining socioeconomic event of modern times.