The First Industrial Revolution (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

The modern world began with the industrial revolution and the industrial revolution began in Britain. Over the course of a century after about 1750 the whole basis of the economy was transformed. Manufacturing replaced agriculture as the principal source of wealth and employer of labour: the primary sector gave place to the secondary and the tertiary. At the same time, by 1850 more than half of the British population lived in a town for the first time in our history: the class structure and the social life which we still recognize came into being. In Deane's concise and authoritative account of this most decisive of moments in our history we have a work which remains as accessible to the general reader and as essential for students as it was when it first appeared in 1965. (Kirkus UK)

The second edition of this highly successful work identifies and updates the strategic changes in economic organization, industrial structure, and technological progress during the industrial revolution in Britain from 1750-1850.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	1980
First published:	1979
Authors:	P. M. Deane
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	332
Edition:	2nd Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-29609-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history
LSN:	0-521-29609-9
Barcode:	9780521296090

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