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Author: Hugh Chisholm
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 1090
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Hugh Chisholm
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hannah Barker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 0198786026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSmall businesses were at the heart of the economic growth and social transformation that characterized the industrial revolution in eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain; this monograph examines the economic, social, and cultural history of some of these forgotten businesses and the men and women who worked in them and ran them.
Author: Robert C. Allen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-04-09
Total Pages: 13
ISBN-13: 0521868270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy 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: Henry Mayhew
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 1605207330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAssembled from a series of newspaper articles first published in the newspaper *Morning Chronicle* throughout the 1840s, this exhaustively researched, richly detailed survey of the teeming street denizens of London is a work both of groundbreaking sociology and salacious voyeurism. In an 1850 review of the survey, just prior to its initial book publication, William Makepeace Thackeray called it "tale of terror and wonder" offering "a picture of human life so wonderful, so awful, so piteous and pathetic, so exciting and terrible, that readers of romances own they never read anything like to it." Delving into the world of the London "street-folk"-the buyers and sellers of goods, performers, artisans, laborers and others-this extraordinary work inspired the socially conscious fiction of Charles Dickens in the 19th century as well as the urban fantasy of Neil Gaiman in the late 20th. Volume I explores the lives of: the "wandering tribes" costermongers sellers of fish, fruits and vegetables sellers of books and stationery sellers of manufactured goods women and children on the streets and more. English journalist HENRY MAYHEW (1812-1887) was a founder and editor of the satirical magazine *Punch.*
Author: E. A. Wrigley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-08-19
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 0521766931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRetrospective: 9.
Author: Robert C. Allen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017-02-16
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 0191016772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe '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: Patrick O'Brien
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-01-29
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780521437448
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text is a wide-ranging survey of the principal economic and social aspects of the first Industrial Revolution.
Author: L. D. Schwarz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-10-29
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0521403650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyses the effects of the industrial revolution on London's working population.
Author: David Barnett
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 1998-12-31
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy 1800 London was the world's greatest city and at the centre of the world's greatest empire. This book sets out to show that, in addition to providing financial and other essential service skills, the capital was also at the heart of the Industrial Revolution.
