The Industrial Revolution in World History, Paperback

Now in its fifth edition, this book explores the ways in which the industrial revolution reshaped world history, covering the international factors...

DescriptionThe industrial revolution stands out as a key event not simply in British history, but in world history, ushering in as it did a new era...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Industrial RevolutionThe Industrial Revolution which took place in Great Britain between the middle of the eighteenth century and th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Eric HobsbawmEditor: Chris WrigleyPremier historian Eric Hobsbawm's brilliant study of the Industrial Revolution, which sol...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Carole MarshThe words industrial revolution often make us think of greasy, sooty men working on enormous machines making in...

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In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent liberal industrial Lord Leverhulme bought - lock, stock and barrel - the Hebrid...

Offering a fresh look at trade during the second industrial revolution, Global Markets Transformed describes a world of commodities on the move--wh...

In an accessible and timely work of scholarship, celebrated historian Joshua B. Freeman tells the story of the factory and examines how it has refl...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles MorrisIn the first few decades of the nineteenth century, America went from being a largely rural economy, with lit...

Capital, as Marx once wrote, comes into the world "dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt." He might well have been descr...

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DescriptionThe Long Nineteenth Century, 1750-1914 is a global history textbook with a difference. It is a guide for students to the actions and exp...

Reducere. In his treatise on European economic history (The Servile State, 1912) Hilaire Belloc explores the many failings of the Capitalist system. He expla...

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Join our protagonist Prince Braxton as he blazes a sizzling trail from the 1860s to the 1960s, the most dynamic 100 years in history, a century of ...

Reducere. In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decrea...

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The conquest of the Americas inaugurated the slow accumulation of resources and the imperceptible structural transformations that culminated in the...

Against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution, an extraordinary circle of fossilists struggled to make sense of a mysterious, prehistoric world...

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Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the Chinese, ...

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Reducere. Economic growth since the Industrial Revolution has been achieved at great cost both to the natural environment and to the autonomy of communities....

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The Shropshire market town of Shrewsbury, lying on the River Severn, was an important center of the wool trade in medieval England and its prosperi...

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How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origin...

This book explores the history behind how woman's clothing were manufactured and worn between the French Revolution and World War I. Including full...

Contributor(s): Author: Sarah Jane DowningThe broader Regency period 1795-1820 stands alone as an incredible moment in fashion history unlike anyth...

An outrageous trio of novellas that twist the Victorian era out of shape, by a master of alternate history: "Spooky, haunting, hilarious" (William ...

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Reducere. We live in the age of speed. We strain to be more efficient, to cram more into each minute, each hour, each day. Since the Industrial Revolution sh...

Reducere. Before the age of Industrial Revolution, the great Asian civilisations - whether located in the Middle East, India, South-East Asia, or the Far Eas...