Author: Mary Catherine GallagherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
British Industrial Narratives, 1830-1855
Author: Mary Catherine GallagherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
The Factory Question and Industrial England, 1830-1860
Author: Robert GrayPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521892926
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Factory Question and Industrial England addresses the continuing controversy over industrialisation. It investigates different perceptions of the 'factory system' either as a threat or a promise, and the contested meanings of waged work in industry. Making use of a great variety of sources, such as sermons, medical treatises, fictional and visual representations, Robert Gray places the languages of debate in their cultural contexts, paying particular attention to the shifting constructions of class and gender in the rhetoric of reform, and the ambiguities and tensions inherent in 'protective' legislation. He then relates patterns of conflict over factory legislation to the features of specific industrial towns. The combination of regional, cultural and textual analysis makes this book a coherent and original contribution to the study of industrial Britain in the nineteenth century.
The Industrial Novels
Author: Mehmet Akif BalkayaPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443886572
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
This book provides a clear historical and theoretical framework for reading three important novels published in Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century. Examining the novels by Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell, the book offers an analysis of their strategies for radical reforms and for the restructuring of society and politics through improvements in the living and working conditions of the working class. The Industrial Novels begins with an introduction of the Industrial Revolution, which is then followed by chapters devoted to a detailed discussion of each novel. Through this, the book explores the negative social, political and economic effects of industrialization and urbanization, as reflected in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley (1849), Charles Dickens’ Hard Times (1854), and Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South (1855). As such, the book will be of interest to academics and students in the fields of both literature and sociology.
Cumulative Bibliography of Victorian Studies
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Annual bibliography of Victorian studies
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
The Industrial Revolution in the Novel of the Nineteenth Century 1830-1860
Author: Rachel Dunaway CoxSlave Life in Georgia
Author: BrownFossil Capital
Author: Andreas MalmPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1784781312
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end up in this mess? In this masterful new history, Andreas Malm claims it all began in Britain with the rise of steam power. But why did manufacturers turn from traditional sources of power, notably water mills, to an engine fired by coal? Contrary to established views, steam offered neither cheaper nor more abundant energy—but rather superior control of subordinate labour. Animated by fossil fuels, capital could concentrate production at the most profitable sites and during the most convenient hours, as it continues to do today. Sweeping from nineteenth-century Manchester to the emissions explosion in China, from the original triumph of coal to the stalled shift to renewables, this study hones in on the burning heart of capital and demonstrates, in unprecedented depth, that turning down the heat will mean a radical overthrow of the current economic order.
The Gypsy Scholar
Author: George Eliot, 1880-1980
Author: The British Patent System and the Industrial Revolution 1700-1852
Author: Sean BottomleyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107058295
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
A fundamental reassessment of the contribution of patenting to British industrialisation during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.