Industry and Empire: From 1750 to the Present DayPremier historian Eric Hobsbawm's brilliant study of the Industrial Revolution, which sold more than a quarter of a million copies in its original edition, is now back in print, updated for a new generation. In Industry and Empire, Hobsbawm explores the origin and dramatic course of the Industrial Revolution over two hundred and fifty years and its influence on social and political institutions. He describes and accounts for Britain's rise as the first industrial power, its decline from domination, its special relation with the rest of the world, and the effects of this trajectory on the lives of its ordinary citizens. This new edition includes a fascinating summary of events of the last twenty years, and an illuminating new conclusion. |
Contents
Britain in 1750 | 1 |
Origin of the Industrial Revolution | 12 |
The Industrial Revolution 17801840 | 34 |
The Human Results of the Industrial | 57 |
Agriculture 17501850 | 75 |
The Second Phase 184095 | 95 |
Britain in the World Economy | 112 |
Standards of Living 18501914 | 132 |
The Land 18501960 | 173 |
Between the Wars | 185 |
Government and Economy | 204 |
The Long Boom | 230 |
Society Since 1914 | 256 |
The Other Britain | 278 |
A Harsher Economic Climate | 298 |
The Beginnings of Decline | 150 |
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