Industrial Revolution
T. S. Ashton; with a new preface and bibliography by Pat Hudson
(1997).
The industrial Revolution, 1760-1830. (New York, NY:
Oxford University Press, 139 p. [orig. pub. 1948]). Industrial
revolution--Great Britain; Great Britain--Economic
conditions--1760-1860.
Maxine Berg (1994).
The Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820:
Industry, Innovation and Work in Britain. (New York, NY: Routledge,
304 p. [2nd ed.]). Manufacturing industries--Great
Britain--History--18th century.
Asa Briggs (2000).
The Age of Improvement, 1783-1867. (New York, NY:
Longmans, Green & Company, 550 p.). Great Britain--History--George
III, 1760-1820; Great Britain--History--19th century;
England--Civilization--19th century.
Joyce Burnette (2008).
Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain.
(New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 384 p.). Daniel F.
Evans Associate Professor of Economics (Wabash College, Indiana).
Women employees--Great Britain--History--19th century; Sex
discrimination against women--Great Britain--History--19th
century; Industrial revolution--Great Britain.
Role of women in labor market of Industrial Revolution Britain; .
gender
differences in occupations, wages largely driven by market forces;
resulted from actual differences in productivity.
Valerio Castronovo (1978). La Rivoluzione Industriale.
(Firenze, IT: Sansoni, 152 p.). Industrial revolution--Great
Britain; Industrial revolution--Great Britain--History--Sources.
Gregory Clark (2007).
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World.
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 420 p.). Professor of Economics
(University of California, Davis). Economic history.
Culture, not exploitation, geography, or
resources, explains wealth, poverty of nations and Industrial
Revolution in England in 1800; stable political, legal, economic
institutions led to deep cultural changes, encouraged people to
abandon hunter-gatherer instincts (violence, impatience, economy of
effort), to adopt economic habits (hard work, rationality, education).
James C. Cobb (1982).
The Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial
Development, 1936-1980. (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State
University Press, 293 p.). Industrial promotion--Southern States;
Southern States--Economic conditions--1918-.
--- (1984).
Industrialization and Southern Society,
1877-1984. (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 185
p.). Industrialization--Southern States--History; Industrial
promotion--Southern States--History.
D. C. Coleman (1992).
Myth, History, and the Industrial
Revolution. (London, UK: Hambledon Press, 225 p.). Industrial
revolution--Great Britain; Businesspeople--Great Britain--History;
Great Britain--Economic conditions--1760-1860; Great
Britain--Historiography.
N. F. R. Crafts (1985).
British Economic Growth During the Industrial Revolution.
(New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 193 p.). Industrial
revolution--Great Britain; Great Britain--Economic
conditions--1760-1860. British economic growth was relatively slow
during much of so-called industrial "revolution"; how
new growth estimates hold vital implications for understanding of
productivity, living standards, structural change, international trade in 18th- and 19th-century Britain.
Alan Dawley; with a New Preface (2000).
Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn.
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 301 p. [orig. pub. 1975]).
Professor History (The College of New Jersey).
Shoemakers--Massachusetts--Lynn; Social classes--Massachusetts--Lynn;
Shoe industry--Massachusetts--Lynn.
Phyllis Deane (1979).
The First Industrial Revolution. (New York, NY: Cambridge
University Press, 318 p. [2nd ed.]). Industrial revolution--Great
Britain; Great Britain--Economic conditions--1760-1860.
Jan De Vries (2008).
The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household
Economy, 1650 to the Present. (New York, NY: Cambridge
University Press, 327 p.). Professor of History and Economics
(University of California at Berkeley). Consumption (Economics)
--History; Consumers --History. Context in
which economic acceleration associated with Industrial Revolution
took shape; how activation, evolution of consumer demand shaped
course of economic development, situated consumer behavior in
context of household economy; changing consumption goals of
households from 17th century to present; how household decisions
have mediated between macro-level economic growth, actual human
betterment.
S. R. Epstein (2000).
Freedom and Growth: Markets and States
in Pre-Modern Europe, 1300-1750. (New York, NY: Routledge, 223
p.). Professor of Economic History (London School of Economics).
Liberty--History; State, The--History; Europe--Economic
conditions; Europe--Politics and government. Pre-Industrial
Revolution. Economics of growth must
incorporate political economy of growth; insights on political conditions for pre-industrial
economic growth, nature and historical evolution of an
efficient and modern state (explicit anti-Ricardian view).
Ed. S.R. Epstein, Maarten Prak (2008).
Guilds, Innovation, and the European Economy, 1400-1800. (New
York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 352 p.). Professor of Economic
History, Head of the Economic History Department (London School of
Economics). Guilds --Europe --History; Industrialization --Europe
--History; Europe --Commerce --History. Re-examination of role of guilds in early modern European economy; manifold ways in which guilds in
variety of industries in Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland,
France, Belgium, Netherlands, Britain helped to create
institutional environment conducive to technological, marketing
innovations.
Eric J. Evans (1983).
The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain,
1783-1870. (New York, NY: Longman, 457 p.). Industrial
revolution--Great Britain; Great Britain--Economic
conditions--1760-1860; Great Britain--Economic conditions--19th
century; Great Britain--Politics and government--1760-1820; Great
Britain--Politics and government--19th century.
Paul G. Faler (1981).
Mechanics and Manufacturers in the
Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1780-1860.
(Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 267 p.).
Shoemakers--Massachusetts--Lynn--History; Footwear
industry--Massachusetts--Lynn--History; Working
class--Massachusetts--Lynn--History; Lynn (Mass.)--Social
conditions.
Laura L. Frader (2005). The Industrial Revolution: A History
in Documents. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Industrial revolution--Sources; Industrialization--History.
Pierre Gervais (2004). Les Origines de la Revolution
Industrielle aux Etats-Unis: Entre Economie Marchande et
Capitalisme Industriel, 1800-1850. (Paris, FR: Ecole des
Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 347 p.). Industrial
revolution--United States--History--19th century;
Industrialization--United States--History--19th century; United
States--Economic conditions--To 1865.
Mrs. Constance (McLaughlin) Green (1939).
Holyoke,
Massachusetts; A Case History of the Industrial Revolution in
America. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 425 p.).
Industries--Massachusetts--Holyoke; Holyoke (Mass.)--History.
Andre Guillerme (2007). La Naissance de L'industrie à Paris:
Entre Sueurs et Vapeurs, 1780-1830. (Seyssel, France : Champ
Vallon: Champ Vallon, 432 p.). Industrialization -- France --
Paris -- History; Industries -- France -- Paris -- History; Paris
Industrial History 18th-19th Century.
O. W. Henderson (1972).
Britain and Industrial Europe, 1750-1870: Studies in British
Influence on the Industrial Revolution in Western Europe.
(Leicester, UK: Leicester University Press, 267 p. [3rd ed.]).
Industrial revolution--Europe; Industrial revolution--Great
Britain; Great Britain--Foreign economic relations--Europe.
Eds. Kevin Hillstrom and Laurie Collier Hillstrom (2005-2007).
The Industrial Revolution in America. (Santa Barbara, CA:
ABC-CLIO, 9 vols.). Industrial revolution -- United States;
Industries -- United States -- History; industrialization --
United States -- History. Incomplete contents : v. 1. Iron and
steel -- v. 2. Railroads -- v. 3. Steam shipping -- [4] Textiles
-- [5] Mining and petroleum -- [6] Automobiles -- [7]
Communications -- [8] Agriculture and meatpacking -- [9]
Overview/comparison.
--- (2006).The Industrial Revolution in America:
Automobiles, Mining and Petroleum, Textiles. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
Industrial revolution--United States; Industries--United
States--History; Industrialization--United States--History.
Industry that started United
States down road toward economic revolution (textiles),
industry that represented revolution's ultimate destination
(automobiles), industry that fueled journey by turning
nation's natural resources into sources of wealth and power.
Brooke Hindle and Steven Lubar (1986).
Engines of Change:
The American Industrial Revolution, 1790-1860. (Washington,
DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 309 p.). Industrial
revolution--United States; Technological innovations--Economic
aspects--United States--History; United States--Economic
conditions--To 1865.
E. J. Hobsbawn; revised and updated with Chris Wrigley (1999).
Industry and Empire: From 1750 to the Present Day. (New
York, NY: New Press, 411 p.). Industrial revolution--Great
Britain--History; Industries--Great Britain--History; Great
Britain--Economic conditions.
Katrina Honeyman (1983).
Origins of Enterprise: Business
Leadership in the Industrial Revolution. (Manchester, UK:
Manchester University Press, 204 p.). Businesspeople--Great
Britain--History; Industrial revolution--Great Britain;
Entrepreneurship--History; Social mobility--Great
Britain--History.
Jeff Horn (2006).
The Path Not Taken: French
Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830.
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 383 p.). Associate Professor (Manhattan
College). Industrialization--France--History--18th century;
Industrialization--France--History--19th century;
Industrialization--England--History--18th century;
Industrialization--England--History--19th century.
French industrialization was not failed
imitation of laissez-faire British model but product of
distinctive industrial policy that led, over long term, to
prosperity comparable to Britain's.
--- (2007).
The Industrial Revolution: Milestones in Business History.
(Westport, CT,: Greenwood Press, 167 p.). Associate Professor of
History (Manhattan College). Industrial revolution--Great
Britain--History; Industrialization--Great Britain--History;
Industrial revolution--Europe; Great Britain--Economic
conditions--History; Europe--Economic conditions--History.
How Industrial Revolution played out in
Europe, United States, rest of the world; role of government in
promoting, regulating commerce; important distinctions between
original Industrial Revolution (1760-1850), second Industrial
Revolution (approximately 1850 to the early 20th century).
Pat Hudson (1992).
The Industrial Revolution. (New York, NY: E. Arnold, 244
p.). Professor of Economics and Social History (University of
Liverpool). Industrial revolution--Great Britain--Historiography;
Industrial policy--Great Britain--Historiography.; Great
Britain--Economic conditions--Historiography; Great
Britain--Social conditions--Historiography.
Ed. and with an Introduction by Gary J. Kornblith (1998).
The Industrial Revolution in America. (Boston, MA: Houghton
Mifflin, 206 p.). Industrial revolution--United States--History;
Industrialization--United States--History; United States--Economic
conditions; United States--Social conditions.
David S. Landes (1969).
The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development
in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present. (London, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 566 p.). Industries--Europe--History;
Europe--Economic conditions.
Walter Licht (1995).
Industrializing America: The Nineteenth
Century. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 219
p.). Industrialization--United States--History--19th century;
Capitalism--United States--History--19th century; Industrial
policy--United States--History--19th century; United
States--Economic conditions--To 1865--Regional disparities; United
States--Economic conditions--1865-1918--Regional disparities.
Christine MacLeod (1988). Inventing the Industrial
Revolution: The English Patent System, 1660-1800. (New York,
NY: Cambridge University Press, 302 p.). Patents--Great
Britain--History--17th century; Patents--Great
Britain--History--18th century. Development
of English patent system, its relationship with technical change;
evolved from instrument of royal patronage into one of commercial
competition among inventors and manufacturers of Industrial
Revolution.
Paul Mantoux; foreword (1983) by John Kenneth Galbraith;
foreword(1961) by T.S. Ashton (1983).
The Industrial Revolution
in the Eighteenth Century: An Outline of the Beginnings of the
Modern Factory System in England. (Chicago, IL: University of
Chicago Press, 528 p. [orig. pub. 1928]). Industrial
revolution--England; England--Economic conditions--18th century.
Christine MacLeod (2008).
Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity,
1750-1914. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 480
p.). Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the School
of Humanities (University of Bristol). Industrial revolution --
Britain; inventions; Technological innovations--Economic
aspects--Britain--History. Why inventors rose to heroic stature, popular acclaim
in Victorian Britain (numerous monuments, biographies,
honors); legacy for present-day ideas about
invention, inventors, history of industrial revolution
remains highly influential.
Ed. Joel Mokyr (1993).
The British Industrial Revolution: An Economic Perspective.
(Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 362 p.). Industrial
revolution--Great Britain; Great Britain--Economic
conditions--1760-1860. Notes: A collection of 4 new or updated
essays and the editor’s introduction, a survey and evaluation of
contemporary research.
A. D. Morrison-Low (2007).
Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution.
(Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 408 p.). Curator of the History of
Science at National Museums of Scotland. Scientific apparatus and
instruments industry--England--History.
Structure, profitability, economic significance of 18th, early
19th- century British instrument-making trade.
Jon Nichol (1981).
Developing Britain 1740-1900: The Agrarian, Transport and
Industrial Revolutions. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice
Hall, 64 p.). Great Britain -- Industries; Great Britain
Industrial development 1740-1900.
David Oldroyd (2007).
Estates, Enterprise and Investment at the Dawn of the Industrial
Revolution: Estate Management and Accounting in the North-East of
England, c.1700-1780. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 217 p.).
Administration of estates--England, North East--History--18th
century; Industries--England, North East--History--18th century;
Saving and investment--England, North East--History--18th century;
England, North East--Economic conditions.
Role of accountants during the industrial revolution; accounting was essential, extremely
adaptable tool promoting economic efficiency; extraordinary sensitivity to unit costs;
accounting methods used to plan future investments; accounting
information was regularly used both as a planning tool for future
investments and as a tool to maximize profits.
Sidney Pollard (1965).
The Genesis of Modern Management; a Study
of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 328 p.). Great Britain--Economic conditions;
Great Britain--Industries. Early
industrial accounting exhibited marked confusion between capital
and revenues; suggests that early industrialists more concerned
with calculating, extracting interest on their investments rather
than maximizing their rate of return; early entrepreneurs
apparently lacked true profit motive possessed by modern
capitalists.
--- (1981).
Peaceful Conquest: The Industrialization of Europe, 1760-1970.
(New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 451 p.). Industries --
Europe -- History.
Jonathan Prude (1983).
The Coming of Industrial Order: Town
and Factory Life in Rural Massachusetts, 1810-1860. (New York,
NY: Cambridge University Press, 364 p.).
Industries--Massachusetts--History--19th century.
Eric Richards; Foreword by S. G. Checkland (1973).
The Leviathan of Wealth: The Sutherland Fortune in the Industrial
Revolution. (London, UK: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 316 p.).
Sutherland family; Transportation--Great Britain--History; Great
Britain--Commerce--History.
Ed. Christine Rider (2008).
Encyclopedia of the Age of the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1920.
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2 Vols.). Professor Emerita (St.
John's University in New York). Industrial
revolution--Encyclopedias; Technological
innovations--Encyclopedias; Economic history--Encyclopedias.
Over
150 entries on all aspects of historical
transformation of industry and society; describes major people,
events, inventions that defined Industrial Revolution in Britain,
United States, elsewhere; 24 primary documents, Chronology,
bibliography, extensive Introduction, illustrations, detailed
subject index.
Eds. Christine Rider and Micheal Thompson (2000).
The Industrial Revolution in Comparative Perspective.
(Malabar, FL: Krieger Publishing, 268 p.). Industrial revolution;
Economic history. Significance of Industrial Revolution, impact of
New World trade, scientific advances, new technology, financial
developments on industrialization; possible impact of literacy,
population policies, sense of nationhood on industrial change;
results of that change.
Peter N. Stearns (2007).
The Industrial Revolution in World
History. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 260 p. [3rd ed.]). Industrial
revolution; Economic history.
Eds. Mikulas Teich and Roy Porter (1996).
The Industrial Revolution in National Context : Europe and the USA.
(New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 413 p.). Economic
history--1750-1918; Industrial revolution--Europe; Industrial
revolution--United States.
Eds. Peter Temin (2000).
Engines of Enterprise: An Economic History of New England.
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 328 p.). Elisha Gray II
Professor of Economics (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
New England -- Economic conditions. New England led United States
in
transformation from agrarian to industrial economy, reinvented in
complex economy of information society. Transformation of New
England's products and exports from cotton textiles and machine
tools to such intangible goods as education and software.
Brinley Thomas (1993).
The Industrial Revolution and the Atlantic Economy: Selected
Essays. (New York, NY: Routledge, 260 p.). Honorary
Research Associate in the Department of Economics (University of
California, Berkeley). Industrial revolution--Great Britain;
Energy development--Great Britain--History--18th century; Great
Britain--Economic conditions--1760-1860.
Arnold J. Toynbee (1956).
The Industrial Revolution. (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 139
p. [orig. pub. 1884]). Economics--Great Britain--History; Labor
and laboring classes--Great Britain.; Great Britain--Economic
conditions.
Deborah Valenze (1995).
The First Industrial Woman. (New York, NY: Oxford
University Press, 251 p.). Associate Professor of History (Barnard
College). Women --Employment --Great Britain --History --19th
century. How rise of values of productivity,
rationality subordinated women of working class, strengthened
emerging ethos of individualism (selective treatments of
agriculture, spinning, cottage industries); birth of new economic
order resting on social, sexual hierarchies )still part of
contemporary life).
Michael A. Vanns (2003).
Witness to Change: A Record of the
Industrial Revolution: The Elton Collection at the Ironbridge
Gorge Museum. (Hersham, Surrey, UK: Ian Allan, 160 p.). Elton,
Arthur--Art collections--Catalogs; Ironbridge Gorge Museum
Trust--Catalogs; Industrial revolution--Great Britain--Pictorial
works; Industries in art--Catalogs; Industries in
literature--Catalogs; Art and technology--Great Britain--Catalogs;
Industrial museums--Great Britain--Coalbrookdale--Catalogs; Art,
British--18th century--Catalogs; Art, British--19th
century--Catalogs.
Peer Vries (2003). Via Peking back to Manchester: Britain,
the Industrial Revolution, and China. (Leiden, Netherlands:
Leiden, 108 p.). Professor of Global Economic History (University
of Vienna). Great Britain; Great Britain. History. 18th century;
Great Britain. History. 19th century; China. History. 18th
century; China. History. 19th century.
Anthony F. C. Wallace (1978).
Rockdale: The Growth of an
American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution. (New
York, NY: Knopf, 553 p.). Cotton
trade--Pennsylvania--Rockdale--History; Industrial
revolution--Pennsylvania--Rockdale; Rockdale (Pa.)--Social
conditions; Rockdale (Pa.)--Religious life and customs.
Gavin Weightman (2003).
What the Industrial Revolution Did
for Us. (London, UK: BBC, 224 p.). Industrial
revolution--Great Britain; Great Britain--History--19th century;
Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.
--- (2007).
The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Creation of the Modern World
1776-1914. (London, UK: Atlantic Books, 400 p.).
Industrial revolution--Great Britain; Great Britain--History--19th
century; Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century. Author
describes the Industrial Revolution in full from 1776-1914; takes
international perspective. From ironworks of
rural England to outbreak of First World War in 1914;
accounts of
achievements of giants (Trevithick, Stevenson, Watt,
Wedgwood, Daimler, Bessemer, Edison) with lesser-known characters
who carried industrialism from one nation to another.
Mark Wyman (1979).
Hard Rock Epic: Western Miners and the Industrial Revolution,
1860-1910. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press,
331 p.). Professor of History (Illinois State University, Normal).
Miners -- West (U.S.) -- History; Labor unions -- Miners -- West
(U.S.) -- History; Mines and mineral resources -- West (U.S.) --
History.
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