The Industrial Revolution and British Society
- Editors:
- Patrick O'Brien, University of London
- Roland Quinault, University of North London
- Date Published: February 1993
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521437448
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The Industrial Revolution and British Society is an original and wide-ranging textbook survey of the principal economic and social aspects of the Industrial Revolution in Britain in the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries. The distinguished international team of contributors each focus on topics at the very centre of scholarly interest, and draw together the prevailing research in an accessible and stimulating manner: the intention throughout is to introduce a broad student readership to important, but less familiar aspects and consequences of the first Industrial Revolution. A variety of different disciplinary skills are employed in the analysis of empirical and conceptual data, and each chapter opens up its subject with indications for further reading. The Industrial Revolution and British Society offers a topical overview on perspectives of this central historical problem, and will be widely used as a course text by teachers in the field.
Read more- Up-to-date, highly original overview of the major problems and issues of the Industrial Revolution
- Highly distinguished international team of contributors
- Latest research presented in accessible and stimulating manner for student consumption
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'It is a wide-ranging survey of the principal economic and social aspects of the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The eleven chapters range widely over modern conceptions of the Industrial Revolution, through a consideration of women in the workforce, religion and political stability and sex and desire to politics, crime and social aspects of that revolutionary period. Valuable bibliographies are appended to each chapter. The papers are invariably well written and stimulating, raising questions of historiography and methodology that students above 13 are perfectly capable of understanding.' Richard Brown, Teaching History
See more reviews'This is an essential … extremely useful handbook for anyone doing work on this period.' Open History
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- Date Published: February 1993
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521437448
- length: 308 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.505kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Modern conceptions of the Industrial Revolution Patrick O'Brien
2. Women in the work force Duncan Bythell
3. Reinterpretations of the Industrial Revolution Gary Hawke
4. Methodism and political stability in early industrial England Alan D. Gilbert
5. Sex and desire in the Industrial Revolution Thomas Laqueur
6. Political preconditions for the Industrial Revolution Patrick O'Brien
7. Crime, law and punishment in the Industrial Revolution Davis Philips
8. The Industrial Revolution and parliamentry reform Roland E. Quinault
9. The margins of the Industrial Revolution Eric Richards
10. Social aspects of the Industrial Revolution John Stevenson
11. Technological and organisational change in industry during the Industrial Revolution G. N. von Tunzelmann
12. Postscript Eric Jones.
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