First Published in 2005. This book is written for the general reader and not for the specialist. It is an attempt to put the Industrial Revolution in its place in history, and to give an idea both of its significance and of the causes that determined the age and the society in which it began. The book is divided into three parts: in part one authors discuss the development of commerce before the Industrial Revolution; part two describes the changes in transport which preceded the railways, the dissolution of the peasant village, the destruction of custom in industry, and the free play that capital found in consequence. Part three examines the first social effects of the change from a peasant to an industrial civilization.

First Published in 2005. This book is written for the general reader and not for the specialist. It is an attempt to put the Industrial Revolution in its place in history, and to give an idea both of its significance and of the causes that determined the age and the society in which it began. The book is divided into three parts: in part one authors discuss the development of commerce before the Industrial Revolution; part two describes the changes in transport which preceded the railways, the dissolution of the peasant village, the destruction of custom in industry, and the free play that capital found in consequence. Part three examines the first social effects of the change from a peasant to an industrial civilization.

Originally published in 1923, this book covers the career of Lord Shaftesbury from his early career, through Peel's government and factory legislation, and onto religion and philanthropy. His name recalls great achievements in the reform of law; a powerful force in debates and contests, on the issue of which depended the fortunes of England, and he helped to both create and destroy institutions, habits and beliefs to great consequence of his successors.

Originally published in 1923, this book covers the career of Lord Shaftesbury from his early career, through Peel's government and factory legislation, and onto religion and philanthropy. His name recalls great achievements in the reform of law; a powerful force in debates and contests, on the issue of which depended the fortunes of England, and he helped to both create and destroy institutions, habits and beliefs to great consequence of his successors.

This is a new release of the original 1923 edition.

THIS 30 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Lord Shaftesbury, by J. L. Hammond. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766143538.

1923. The authors' aim in this biographical account of Antony Ashley Cooper, or Lord Shaftesbury, is to describe his work and character, and the significant contribution that he made to the politics and history of his age. In the tale of his life, one realizes the pathos and grandeur of this solitary, self-willed and deeply melancholy man battling and struggling for his weak and helpless fellows.

THIS 22 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Lord Shaftesbury, by J. L. Hammond. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766143538.

1923. The authors' aim in this biographical account of Antony Ashley Cooper, or Lord Shaftesbury, is to describe his work and character, and the significant contribution that he made to the politics and history of his age. In the tale of his life, one realizes the pathos and grandeur of this solitary, self-willed and deeply melancholy man battling and struggling for his weak and helpless fellows.

THIS 30 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Lord Shaftesbury, by J. L. Hammond. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766143538.

The authors' aim in this biographical account of Antony Ashley Cooper, or Lord Shaftesbury, is to describe his work and character, and the significant contribution that he made to the politics and history of his age. In the tale of his life, one realizes the pathos and grandeur of this solitary, self-willed and deeply melancholy man battling and struggling for his weak and helpless fellows.

TERRA FIRMA is set in a not-so-distant Beckettian future-years after a conflict known as the Big War, in which a tiny kingdom wrestles with the problems of running a nation-and opposing notions of what makes a citizen, a country, and a civilization.