Reformation to Industrial Revolution
Reformation to Industrial Revolution

Author: Christopher Hill

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2018-09-25

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1786636182

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The masterful account of Britain’s reshaping as a modern nation In 1530 England was a backward economy. Yet by 1780 she possessed a global empire and was on the verge of becoming the world’s first industrialized power. This book deals with the intervening 250 years, and explains how England acquired this unique position in history. Esteemed historian Christopher Hill recounts a story that begins with the break with Europe before hitting a tumultuous period of war and revolution, combined with a cultural and scientific flowering that made up the early modern period. It was in this era that Britain became home to imperial ambitions and economic innovation, prefiguring what was to come. Hill excavates the conditions and ideas that underpin this age of extraordinary change, and shows how, and why, Britain became the most powerful nation in the world.

Reformation to Industrial Revolution
Reformation to Industrial Revolution

Author: Christopher Hill

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2018-09-25

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1786636204

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In 1530 England was a backward economy, yet by 1780 she possessed a world empire and was just about to become the first industrialized power in the world. This book deals with the intervening 250 years, and tries to explain how England won her unique position in the world. This is a story that opens with the break with Europe and charts the tumultuous period of war, revolutions, and the a cultural and scientific flowering that made up the early modern period. Yet, during this period Britain also become the home to imperial ambitions and economic innovation. Hill excavates the conditions and ideas that underpin this age of extraordinary change, and shows how, and why, Britain became the most powerful nation in the world.

Rethinking the Industrial Revolution
Rethinking the Industrial Revolution

Author: Michael Andrew Žmolek

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-08-19

Total Pages: 935

ISBN-13: 9004251790

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In Rethinking the Industrial Revolution: Five Centuries of Transition from Agrarian to Industrial Capitalism in England, Michael Andrew Žmolek offers the first in-depth study of the evolution of English manufacturing from the feudal and early modern periods within the context of the development of agrarian capitalism. With an emphasis on the relationship between Parliament and working Britons, this work challenges readers to 'rethink' the common perception of the role of the state in the first industrial revolution as essentially passive. The work chronicles how a long train of struggles led by artisans resisting efforts by employers to transform production along capitalist lines, prompted employers to appeal to the state to suppress this resistance by coercion.

The Modern World-System II
The Modern World-System II

Author: Immanuel Wallerstein

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2011-05-11

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 0520267583

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"The Modern World System", Immanuel Wallerstein's influential multivolume reinterpretation of global history, traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth century to the twentieth. -- From publisher's description.

Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England
Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England

Author: Margaret W. Ferguson

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780802087577

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Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England turns to these points of departure for the study of women's legal status and property relationships in the early modern period.