O'Brien Quinault

The Industrial Revolution and British Society

Herausgeber: O'Brien, Patrick K.; Quinault, Roland

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Industrial Revolution and British Society is a wide-ranging survey of the principal economic and social aspects of the Industrial Revolution in Britain in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This book offers the most up-to-date overview of recent scholarship on this subject. It will be widely used as a textbook on advanced courses on British economic and social history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780521437448
• ISBN-10: 052143744X
• Artikelnr.: 21492243

Inhaltsangabe

1. Modern conceptions of the Industrial Revolution Patrick O'Brien
2. Women in the work force Duncan Bythell
3. Reinterpretations of the Industrial Revolution Gary Hawke
4. Methodism and political stability in early industrial England Alan D. Gilbert
5. Sex and desire in the Industrial Revolution Thomas Laqueur
6. Political preconditions for the Industrial Revolution Patrick O'Brien
7. Crime, law and punishment in the Industrial Revolution Davis Philips
8. The Industrial Revolution and parliamentry reform Roland E. Quinault
9. The margins of the Industrial Revolution Eric Richards
10. Social aspects of the Industrial Revolution John Stevenson
11. Technological and organisational change in industry during the Industrial Revolution G. N. von Tunzelmann
12. Postscript Eric Jones.