Industrial Revolution, 1760-1830

Name: Industrial Revolution, 1760-1830
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ISBN: 9780192892898

ISBN-10: 0192892894

ISBN-13: 9780192892898

Edition: 2nd 1997 (Revised)

Authors: T. S. Ashton, Pat Hudson

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The Industrial Revolution has sometimes been regarded as a catastrophe which desecrated the English landscape and brought social opporession and appalling physical hardship to the workers. In this book, however, it is presented as an important and beneficial mark of progress. In spite of destructive wars and a rapid growth of population, the material living standards of most of the British people improved, and the technical innovations not only brought economic rewards but also provoked greater intellectual ingenuity. Innovation is therefore seen by Ashton not just as an economic course but as a social and cultural process influenced by factors such as war and peace and the framework of law…

Book details

List price: $94.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/8/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 162
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.76" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English



Preface, Pat Hudson


Introduction



The Earlier Forms of Industry



The Technical Innovations



Capital and Labour



`Individualism' and `Laisser-faire'



The Course of Economic Change


Bibliography


Index


Map