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The Industrial Revolution and British Society
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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The Industrial Revolution and British Society
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Authors and Contributors |
Edited by Patrick O'Brien
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Edited by Roland Quinault
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:308 | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152 |
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Category/Genre | British and Irish History World history - c 1750 to c 1900 |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780521437448
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Classifications | Dewey:338.0941 |
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | |
Illustrations |
Worked examples or Exercises
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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Publication Date |
29 January 1993 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
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 currently at the very center of scholarly interest, and draw together the very latest 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.
Reviews'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 'This is an essential ... extremely useful handbook for anyone doing work on this period.' Open History
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