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Lancashire - A Social History, 1558-1939 (Paperback)
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Lancashire - A Social History, 1558-1939 (Paperback)
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If England was 'the first industrial nation', Lancashire was
emphatically the first industrial county the first to develop, over
a wide area, the combination of steam-powered factory industry and
urban sprawl which says 'Industrial Revolution' to most people. It
was also one the first fully industrialised areas to experience
catastrophic economic decline in the inter-war years. Much has been
written about particular aspects of the Lancashire industrial
experience, and the social causes and consequences of the changes
that took place, but there is not full-length social history of the
county as a whole, looking at developments in the long run and
comparing and contrasting the patterns of change in the
south-eastern textile district, on Merseyside and north of the
Ribble. An explanation of Lancashire's unique social history since
Elizabethan times is long overdue, and Lancashire a social history,
1558-1939 puts forward a distinctive point of view on the many
areas of controversy. How did the 'Industrial Revolution' affect
working-class living standards? Why did Lancashire become a
stronghold both of Puritan activism and Roman Catholic survival,
and what were the long-term consequences of this? Was the
'Industrial Revolution' really funded by the profits of the slave
trade? Why was working-class Lancashire in the nineteenth century
apparently first Chartist, then Conservative? Was Lancashire the
original centre and true home of 'Victorian values', of a culture
of thrift, enterprise and self-reliance? This is the first social
history of an English county to span the centuries from the
sixteenth to the twentieth, looking at all levels of society and
analysing politics and the power structures as well as
technological innovation and material wealth. More importantly, it
studies a particular vital and controversial place and period, and
takes account of continuities as well as changes. Aimed at the
sixth former and general reader as well as the academic market, it
should become essential reading for historians, and historical
geographers, sociologists and economists. -- .
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