Author : Barrie Stuart Trinder
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,71 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781859361757
This important new book endeavors to explain the industrial revolution throughout the British Isles.
Author : Kenneth Morgan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 10,57 MB
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1317862090
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 : 24,63 MB
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521868270
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 : Peter Mathias
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 10,32 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0415266726
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 : Christine Counsell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,50 MB
Release : 1993-07-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780521424943
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 : Tim Cooper
Publisher : Random House
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 25,93 MB
Release : 2011-08-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1407027417
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 : E. Royston pike
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 32,16 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136612750
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 : 18,82 MB
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1139470582
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 : Emma Griffin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 38,36 MB
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1350306983
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 : N. F. R. Crafts
Publisher : Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 37,94 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
In recent years, traditional views of a rapidly growing British economy between 1700 and 1850 have been overturned by convincing new research indicating that British economic growth was, in fact, relatively slow during much of the so-called industrial "revolution". This revisionist work, which is certain to profoundly affect any future scholarship on the subject, is the first to give a fully documented account of the new picture of British economic development that has recently emerged. Bringing together the results of the latest research, Crafts explores how the new growth estimates hold vital implications for our understanding of productivity, living standards, structural change, and international trade in 18th- and 19th-century Britain.
