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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...
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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. Guardian A masterly survey of the major economic developments and changes of the last 200 years, sharply and ironically observed, and elegantly written.
PrefaceIntroduction1Britain in 175012Origin of the Industrial Revolution123The Industrial Revolution 1780-1840344The Human Results of the Industrial Revolution 1750-1850575Agriculture 1750-1850756Industrialization: The Second Phase 1840-95877Britain in the World Economy1128Standards of Living 1850-19141329The Beginnings of Decline15010The Land 1850-196017311Between the Wars18512Government and Economy20413The Long Boom23014Society Since 191425615The Other Britain27816A Harsher Economic Climate298Conclusion317Diagrams325Further Reading376Index379
\ GuardianA masterly survey of the major economic developments and changes of the last 200 years, sharply and ironically observed, and elegantly written.\ \
