Making Sense of the Industrial Revolution: English Economy and Society 1700-1850 (Manchester Studies in Modern History)

Steven King, Geoffrey Timmins

ISBN 10: 0719050227 / ISBN 13: 9780719050220

Verlag: Manchester University Press 01/07/2001, 2001

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Making Sense of the Industrial Revolution: English Economy and Society 1700-1850 (Manchester Studies in Modern History)
• Verlag: Manchester University Press 01/07/2001
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0719050227
• ISBN-13: 9780719050220
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

Presents a new perspective on the Industrial Revolution providing far more than just an account of industrial change. Looks at the development of the economic structures and includes chapters on financing the revolution, technological change, markets and demand, transport and food. The final section looks at economic change and its impact and includes chapters on demography, the household, families, authority and regulation, and the built environment. Providing a complete summary of the various debates in the literature on this period, making a strong case for re-introducing a regional approach to the history of the age.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Steven King is Lecturer in History at Oxford Brookes University. Geoffrey Timmins is Principal Lecturer in History at the University of Central Lancashire -- .