Book ID: CBB001421820

Britain's Industrial Revolution: The Making of a Manufacturing People, 1700--1870 (2013)

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Trinder, Barrie Stuart (Author)


Carnegie Publishing


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: xii + 676 pp.; ill.; maps
Language: English

This important new book endeavours to explain the true nature of the Industrial Revolution in every part of the British Isles, including Scotland and Ireland. Prominent, of course, are those districts which witnessed the greatest economic and social change, such as Manchester, Birmingham, the Ironbridge Gorge, Leeds, South Wales, the Central Belt of Scotland, and the East End of London. Yet it also shows how even the sleepiest of sleepy hollows could be affected by industrial development, as in the availability of coal and iron, cheaper consumer goods, and the transformation of transport services. The Industrial Revolution affected everyone. The book is in three main parts: Part I looks at enabling technologies such as energy, machine making and transport; PartII deals with manufacturing industry itself; and Part III looks at industry and society in the booming new towns of the age.

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Authors & Contributors
Evans, Chris
Brunton, Deborah C.
Jeremy Lowe
Richard Williams
Wakelin, Peter
Rob Johnstone
Concepts
Industrial revolution
Technology and economics
Transportation
Coal and coal mining
Manufacturing
Technology
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
17th century
21st century
20th century, late
Places
Great Britain
Wales
Scotland
England
Ireland
United States
Institutions
Chance Brothers and Company
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