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The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

By Robert C. Allen

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About the book

The 'Industrial Revolution' was a pivotal point in British history that occurred between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and led to far reaching transformations of society. With the advent of revolutionary manufacturing technology productivity boomed. Machines were used to spin and weave cloth, steam engines were used to provide reliable power, and industry was fed by the construction of the first railways, a great network of arteries feeding thefactories. Cities grew as people s...Show more

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9780198706786

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Oxford University Press

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2017

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The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

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