Industry and Empire: From 1750 to the Present Day

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Penguin Books, 1990 - Business & Economics - 384 pages
This outstanding history describes and accounts for Britain's rise as the world's first industrial world power, its decline from the temporary dominance of the pioneer, its rather special relationship with the rest of the world (notably the underdeveloped countries) and the effects of all these on the life of the British people. -- Provided by publisher.

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Preface
9
Britain in 1750
23
Origin of the Industrial Revolution
34
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Eric Hobsbawm is a neo-Marxist historian of the Industrial Revolution who pays particular attention to the inequities toward the lower classes, especially in law and politics.

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