ABSTRACT
First Published in 2005. This book is written for the general reader and not for the specialist. It is an attempt to put the Industrial Revolution in its place in history, and to give an idea both of its significance and of the causes that determined the age and the society in which it began. The book is divided into three parts: in part one authors discuss the development of commerce before the Industrial Revolution; part two describes the changes in transport which preceded the railways, the dissolution of the peasant village, the destruction of custom in industry, and the free play that capital found in consequence. Part three examines the first social effects of the change from a peasant to an industrial civilization.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |65 pages
Commerce Before the Industrial Revolution
chapter |23 pages
From the Levant to the Atlantic
chapter |14 pages
England as an Atlantic Power
chapter |12 pages
The Effect of the Wars of Europe
chapter |16 pages
The New Prestige of Commerce
part |124 pages
The English Industrial Revolution
chapter |15 pages
The Revolution in Transport
chapter |16 pages
The Destruction of the Peasant Village
chapter |13 pages
The Destruction of Custom in Industry
chapter |21 pages
The Steam Engine
chapter |31 pages
The Revolution in Iron
chapter |16 pages
The Revolution in Pottery
chapter |12 pages
The Revolution in Cotton
part |95 pages
The Social Consequences