| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 225 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Myth, History and the Industrial Revolution; 2 Industrial Growth and Industrial Revolutions; 3 Naval Dockyards under the Later Stuarts; 4 Growth and Decay during the Industrial Revolution: The Case of East Anglia; 5 Proto-industrialization: A Concept Too Many; 6 Gentlemen and Players; 7 Adam Smith, Businessmen and the Mercantile System in England; 8 Historians and Businessmen; 9 War Demand and Industrial Supply: The 'Dope Scandal' 1915-1919; 10 The Uses and Abuses of Business History; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T. |
| Summary |
Tourists are today urged to visit the 'birthplace of the Industrial Revolution', packaged as part of 'a glorious heritage'. Half a century and more ago the picture was very different. Then the Industrial Revolution was commonly treated as having been a social catastrophe which had brought 'a new barbarism' to the country. Donald Coleman traces the history of the term 'Industrial Revolution' and the uses to which it has been put. Originating in European radical Romanticism, popularised in English by Arnold Toynbee in the 1 880s, it has achieved, with its meaning transformed, the status of poten. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Industrial revolution -- Great Britain.
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Industrial revolution. |
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Great Britain. |
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Businesspeople -- Great Britain -- History.
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Businesspeople. |
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History. |
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Great Britain -- Historiography.
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Historiography. |
| Chronological Term |
1760-1860 |
| Indexed Term |
Industries Development History |
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Great Britain |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Coleman, D.C. (Donald Cuthbert), 1920- Myth, history, and the Industrial Revolution. London ; Rio Grande, Ohio : Hambledon Press, 1992 1852850744 (DLC) 92009138 (OCoLC)25509342 |
| ISBN |
9780826434180 (electronic book) |
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0826434185 (electronic book) |
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1852850744 |
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9781852850746 |
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