Industry and Empire

The Birth of the Industrial Revolution

By: Eric Hobsbawm, Chris Wrigley (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 September 1999 | Edition Number 1

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Premier 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.

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Preface
Introduction
Britain in 1750	p. 1
Origin of the Industrial Revolution	p. 12
The Industrial Revolution 1780-1840	p. 34
The Human Results of the Industrial Revolution 1750-1850	p. 57
Agriculture 1750-1850	p. 75
Industrialization: The Second Phase 1840-95	p. 87
Britain in the World Economy	p. 112
Standards of Living 1850-1914	p. 132
The Beginnings of Decline	p. 150
The Land 1850-1960	p. 173
Between the Wars	p. 185
Government and Economy	p. 204
The Long Boom	p. 230
Society Since 1914	p. 256
The Other Britain	p. 278
A Harsher Economic Climate	p. 298
Conclusion	p. 317
Diagrams	p. 325
Further Reading	p. 376
Index	p. 379
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