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  • Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution

    by Maxine Berg, Pat Hudson ...
    The role of slavery in driving Britain's economic development is often debated, but seldom given a central place.In their remarkable new book, Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson 'follow the money' to document in revealing detail the role of slavery in the making of Britain’s industrial revolution. Slavery was not just a source of wealth for a narrow circle of slave owners who built grand country houses ... Read more

    Was $24.00 USD Now $16.00 USD

  • The Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820

    Industry, Innovation and Work in Britain

    by Dr Maxine Berg, Maxine Berg ...
    This new edition of The Age of Manufactures provides an exciting alternative overview of the eighteenth-century British economy. Recent macro-economic history has discounted many of the achievements of the Industrial Revolution. Maxine Berg argues that at the heart of the Industrial Revolution, we find many new consumer industries employing a women's workforce, and bringing with them a rich ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Markets and Manufacture in Early Industrial Europe (Routledge Revivals)

    Edited by MAXINE Berg ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This edited collection, first published in 1991, focuses on the commercial relations, marketing structures and development of consumption that accompanied early industrial expansion. The papers examine aspects of industrial structure and work organisation, including women’s work, and highlight the conflict and compromise between work traditions and the emergence of a market culture. With an ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Goods from the East, 1600-1800

    Trading Eurasia

    Edited by Maxine Berg, Hanna Hodacs, Chris Nierstrasz ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Goods from the East focuses on the fine product trade's first Global Age: how products were made, marketed and distributed between Asia and Europe between 1600 and 1800. It brings together established scholars as well as new, to provide a full comparative and connective study of this trade. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The Industrial Revolution

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert C. Allen ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The 'Industrial Revolution' was a pivotal point in British history that occurred between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and led to far reaching transformations of society. With the advent of revolutionary manufacturing technology productivity boomed. Machines were used to spin and weave cloth, steam engines were used to provide reliable power, and industry was fed by the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • My Scotland, Our Britain

    A Future Worth Sharing

    by Gordon Brown ...
    My Scotland, Our Britain: A Future Worth Sharingis a highly personal account of Gordon Brown's Scotland, the nation he was born in, and our Britain, the multinational state that the Scots, English, Welsh and Northern Irish have created and share.Laying bare his family's ancestry over 300 years of the Union and explaining how it shaped his background, Brown charts what it was like growing up in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Cotton

    The Fabric that Made the Modern World

    by Giorgio Riello ...
    Today's world textile and garment trade is valued at a staggering $425 billion. We are told that under the pressure of increasing globalisation, it is India and China that are the new world manufacturing powerhouses. However, this is not a new phenomenon: until the industrial revolution, Asia manufactured great quantities of colourful printed cottons that were sold to places as far afield as Japan ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Atlas of Industrializing Britain, 1780-1914

    by John Langton, R.J. Morris ...
    This atlas draws together crucial social and economic data on England, Scotland and Wales between 1780 and 1914, and gives a clear guide to the industrial development of Great Britain during the modern period. ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Energy and the English Industrial Revolution

    by E. A. Wrigley ...
    The industrial revolution transformed the productive power of societies. It did so by vastly increasing the individual productivity, thus delivering whole populations from poverty. In this new account by one of the world's acknowledged authorities the central issue is not simply how the revolution began but still more why it did not quickly end. The answer lay in the use of a new source of energy. ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Path to Sustained Growth

    England's Transition from an Organic Economy to an Industrial Revolution

    by E. A. Wrigley ...
    Before the industrial revolution prolonged economic growth was unachievable. All economies were organic, dependent on plant photosynthesis to provide food, raw materials, and energy. This was true both of heat energy, derived from burning wood, and mechanical energy provided chiefly by human and animal muscle. The flow of energy from the sun captured by plant photosynthesis was the basis of all ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Rural Depopulation in England and Wales, 1851-1951

    by John Saville ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    First Published in 1998. This book aims to accommodate for the little attention paid to the needs of the people living in rural Britain. The author argues that there has hardly been an attempt to describe the impact of new machines and of new wage-levels on farm and village. The title sets out to answer two key questions: can the traditional pattern of settlement survive, and has depopulation in ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Contested Common Land

    Environmental Governance Past and Present

    Edited by Christopher P. Rodgers, Eleanor Straughton, Angus J.L. Winchester, Margherita Pieraccini ...
    This innovative and interdisciplinary book makes a major contribution to common pool resource studies. It offers a new perspective on the sustainable governance of common resources, grounded in contemporary and archival research on the common lands of England and Wales - an important common resource with multiple, and often conflicting, uses. It encompasses ecologically sensitive environments and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD