The Industrial Revolution and British Society

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Industrial Revolution and British Society
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Patrick O'Brien
Edited by Roland Quinault
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:308
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreBritish and Irish History
World history - c 1750 to c 1900
ISBN/Barcode 9780521437448
ClassificationsDewey:338.0941
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 29 January 1993
Publication Country United Kingdom

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