Synopses & Reviews
This comprehensive and innovative book on the Industrial Revolution uses carefully chosen case studies, illustrated with extracts from contemporary documents, to offer new perspectives on the process and impact of industrialization. The authors look at the development of economic structures, the financing of the Industrial Revolution, technological advances, markets and demand, and agricultural progress. The book also deals with changes in demography, the household, families, and the built environment.
Review
"The authors deliver on the promise they make in their title...a good resource for any scholar...."--Lindy Biggs,
Technology and Culture
Synopsis
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.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-398) and index.
About the Author
Steven King is Lecturer in History at Oxford Brookes University.
Geoffrey Timmins is Principal Lecturer in History at the University of Central Lancashire.
Table of Contents
Part I: Conceptualizing the Industrial Revolution * Perceptions of the Industrial Revolution * Regions and Regionality *
Part II: Development of the Economic Infrastructure * Technology and the Industrial Revolution * Financing the Industrial Revolution * Transport * Marketing and Markets * Agriculture and the Industrial Revolution *
Part III: The Industrial Revolution and Aspects of Everyday Life * The Demography of the Industrial Revolution * Families, Households, and Individuals * The Changing Economics of the Household * Authority, Regulation, and Power * The Built Environment