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- catalog abstract ""This new Seminar Study is the first of two companion volumes to tackle the Industrial Revolution in Britain. This, the first volume to be published, will look at economic change between 1750 and 1850 while the second, to follow shortly, will deal with social change in the same period." "The purpose of the book is to introduce readers to the significance and scale of the economic changes in Britain, while taking account of the older practices that persisted alongside the new. As far as it is possible within the confines of a short book. Professor Morgan highlights the differences between the process of industrialisation in England and Wales on the one hand and Scotland on the other."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11366720.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Economic conditions 1760-1860.".
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""This new Seminar Study is the first of two companion volumes to tackle the Industrial Revolution in Britain. This, the first volume to be published, will look at economic change between 1750 and 1850 while the second, to follow shortly, will deal with social change in the same period." "The purpose of the book is to introduce readers to the significance and scale of the economic changes in Britain, while taking account of the older practices that persisted alongside the new. As far as it is possible within the confines of a short book. Professor Morgan highlights the differences between the process of industrialisation in England and Wales on the one hand and Scotland on the other."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. The Background. 1. The Birth of Industrial Britain -- pt. 2. Analysis. 2. Population Growth. Emigration and immigration. Malthus and demographic theory. Mortality. Fertility. Was Malthus right? Scotland. 3. Agriculture. Agrarian society. Agricultural innovation. Parliamentary enclosure. 4. Domestic Industry and Proto-Industrialization. Work in domestic industry. The theory of proto-industrialization. Proto-industrialization assessed. 5. Factory Production and the Textile Industries. The technology of spinning and weaving. Factory work. Opposition to factory work. Factory labour in context. 6. Coal and Iron. Output and regional distribution. The technology of coalmining. The technology of ironmaking and steelmaking.".
- catalog extent "vi, 147 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0582298334 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Seminar studies in history".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Longman,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Economic conditions 1760-1860.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "330.941 21".
- catalog subject "HC254.5 .M635 1999".
- catalog subject "Industrialization Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Industries Great Britain History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. The Background. 1. The Birth of Industrial Britain -- pt. 2. Analysis. 2. Population Growth. Emigration and immigration. Malthus and demographic theory. Mortality. Fertility. Was Malthus right? Scotland. 3. Agriculture. Agrarian society. Agricultural innovation. Parliamentary enclosure. 4. Domestic Industry and Proto-Industrialization. Work in domestic industry. The theory of proto-industrialization. Proto-industrialization assessed. 5. Factory Production and the Textile Industries. The technology of spinning and weaving. Factory work. Opposition to factory work. Factory labour in context. 6. Coal and Iron. Output and regional distribution. The technology of coalmining. The technology of ironmaking and steelmaking.".
- catalog title "The birth of industrial Britain : economic change 1750-1850 / Kenneth Morgan.".
- catalog type "text".