Interpreting the Industrial Revolution
Author : Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : American Historical Assoc
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 27,56 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : American Historical Assoc
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 27,56 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Robert C. Allen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 27,86 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 : Douglas Fisher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 38,25 MB
Release : 1994-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1349134457
Macroeconomic data on the industrial revolutions in five countries are examined in this book, both descriptively and analytically (using structural and time-series methods). The underlying theme of the study is to demonstrate strong interactions among the European economies.
Author : Robert C. Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 23,38 MB
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0191016772
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 : E. A. Wrigley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 29,5 MB
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521766931
Retrospective: 9.
Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher :
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 32,75 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 : Kenneth E. Hendrickson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 1145 pages
File Size : 46,93 MB
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0810888882
As editor Kenneth E. Hendrickson, III, notes in his introduction: “Since the end of the nineteenth-century, industrialization has become a global phenomenon. After the relative completion of the advanced industrial economies of the West after 1945, patterns of rapid economic change invaded societies beyond western Europe, North America, the Commonwealth, and Japan.” In The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History contributors survey the Industrial Revolution as a world historical phenomenon rather than through the traditional lens of a development largely restricted to Western society. The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History is a three-volume work of over 1,000 entries on the rise and spread of the Industrial Revolution across the world. Entries comprise accessible but scholarly explorations of topics from the “aerospace industry” to “zaibatsu.” Contributor articles not only address topics of technology and technical innovation but emphasize the individual human and social experience of industrialization. Entries include generous selections of biographical figures and human communities, with articles on entrepreneurs, working men and women, families, and organizations. They also cover legal developments, disasters, and the environmental impact of the Industrial Revolution. Each entry also includes cross-references and a brief list of suggested readings to alert readers to more detailed information. The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History includes over 300 illustrations, as well as artfully selected, extended quotations from key primary sources, from Thomas Malthus’ “Essay on the Principal of Population” to Arthur Young’s look at Birmingham, England in 1791. This work is the perfect reference work for anyone conducting research in the areas of technology, business, economics, and history on a world historical scale.
Author : Julia Garstecki
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1629694460
Have you ever wondered what life was like for individuals and families in the Industrial Revolution? Learn about what their days consisted of, what they ate and wore, and more! Primary sources with accompanying questions, multiple prompts, A Day in the Life section, index, and glossary also included. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author : Patrick O'Brien
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 1993-01-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521437448
This text is a wide-ranging survey of the principal economic and social aspects of the first Industrial Revolution.
Author : Emma Griffin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,98 MB
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0300194811
“Emma Griffin gives a new and powerful voice to the men and women whose blood and sweat greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution” (Tim Hitchcock, author of Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London). This “provocative study” looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class (The New Yorker). The era didn’t just bring about misery and poverty. On the contrary, Emma Griffin shows how it raised incomes, improved literacy, and offered exciting opportunities for political action. For many, this was a period of new, and much valued, sexual and cultural freedom. This rich personal account focuses on the social impact of the Industrial Revolution, rather than its economic and political histories. In the tradition of bestselling books by Liza Picard, Judith Flanders, and Jerry White, Griffin gets under the skin of the period and creates a cast of colorful characters, including factory workers, miners, shoemakers, carpenters, servants, and farm laborers. “Through the ‘messy tales’ of more than 350 working-class lives, Emma Griffin arrives at an upbeat interpretation of the Industrial Revolution most of us would hardly recognize. It is quite enthralling.” —The Oldie magazine “A triumph, achieved in fewer than 250 gracefully written pages. They persuasively purvey Griffin’s historical conviction. She is intimate with her audience, wooing it and teasing it along the way.” —The Times Literary Supplement “An admirably intimate and expansive revisionist history.” —Publishers Weekly