The Industrial Revolution and Economic Growth
The Industrial Revolution and Economic Growth

Author: R. M. Hartwell

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-06-26

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1351696955

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This volume, first published in 1971, brings together eleven essays and articles on the history of the industrial revolution. Method is the central consideration, and the author discusses ways in which historians have analysed the industrial revolution, demonstrates inconsistency and bias in their interpretations, and suggests an appropriate framework of economic theory for future studies. This title will be of interest to students of history and economics.

Leisure in the Industrial Revolution
Leisure in the Industrial Revolution

Author: Hugh Cunningham

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-01

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1317268733

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First published in 1980. This book is a study of what different classes of society understood by leisure and how they enjoyed it. It argues that many of the assumptions which have underlain the history of leisure are misleading, and in particular the notions that there was a vacuum in popular leisure in the early Industrial Revolution; that with industrialisation there was sharp discontinuity with the past; that cultural forms diffuse themselves only down the social scale, and that leisure helped ease class distinctions. An alternative interpretation is suggested in which popular culture can be seen as an active agent as well as a victim. This title will be of interest to students of history.

Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Revolution
Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Revolution

Author: Various Authors

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-03-11

Total Pages: 2462

ISBN-13: 1351670166

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The volumes in this set, originally published between 1967 and 1997, draw together research by leading academics in the area of the industrial revolution and provides an examination of related key issues. The volumes examine urban workers and the working class in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, economic growth during the industrial revolution, and the causes of the industrial revolution, with a primary focus on England. This set will be of particular interest to students of history, business and economics.

Childhood and Child Labour in Industrial England
Childhood and Child Labour in Industrial England

Author: Katrina Honeyman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-23

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 1317167910

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The purpose of this collection is to bring together representative examples of the most recent work that is taking an understanding of children and childhood in new directions. The two key overarching themes are diversity: social, economic, geographical, and cultural; and agency: the need to see children in industrial England as participants - even protagonists - in the process of historical change, not simply as passive recipients or victims. Contributors address such crucial subjects as the varied experience of work; poverty and apprenticeship; institutional care; the political voice of children; child sexual abuse; and children and education. This volume, therefore, includes some of the best, innovative work on the history of children and childhood currently being written by both younger and established scholars.

The First Industrial Revolution
The First Industrial Revolution

Author: Phyllis Deane

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780521296090

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This book identifies the strategic changes that affected Britain from 1750-1850.

Aristocracy and People
Aristocracy and People

Author: Norman Gash

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780674044913

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One of the foremost scholars of nineteenthâe"century England, Gash has written a new interpretation of the years 1815 to 1865 that takes industrialization off center stage as the great dramatic event in national life. Gash integrates other equally significant changes the postwar slump in trade and manufacturing, the unprecedented expansion of population, and the increasing urbanization. He argues that the singular ability of the industrial revolution to produce wealth and skills enabled England to cope with impending social catastrophe. Gash also reintroduces the importance of politics in explaining events, and he challenges the recent historical interpretations giving primacy to class history and class consciousness.

A Quest for Time
A Quest for Time

Author: Gary Cross

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2022-08-19

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0520372018

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.