This classic volume, first published in 1928, is a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the Industrial Revolution. Arranged in three distinct parts, it covers ...

In the eighteenth century, England was transformed from an agricultural nation to an industrial one, as commerce, trade, transportation, and invention changed the iron, coal ...

This book discusses the social structure of England just before and just after the first wave of mechanical invention, which in the next hundred years transformed Great Britain ...

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.