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Author: Frederick George KAYPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Pioneers of British Industry, Etc. [With Illustrations.].
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Author: Frederick George KAYPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Pioneers of British Industry
Author: Frederick George KayPublisher:
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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The First Industrialists
Author: François CrouzetPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521088718
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book is focused on the social and occupational origins of the founders of modem British industry: what kind of families did they come from? What was their occupation before they set up as industrialists? In discussing these and other issues, this study makes an important contribution to the problem of social mobility during the Industrial Revolution.
The Industrial Revolutionaries
Author: Gavin WeightmanPublisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 1555848850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
“Anyone with a passing interest in economic history will thoroughly enjoy” this account of how industry transformed the world (The Seattle Times). In less than one hundred and fifty years, an unlikely band of scientists, spies, entrepreneurs, and political refugees took a world made of wood and powered by animals, wind, and water, and made it into something entirely new, forged of steel and iron, and powered by steam and fossil fuels. This “entertaining and informative” account weaves together the dramatic stories of giants such as Edison, Watt, Wedgwood, and Daimler with lesser-known or entirely forgotten characters, including a group of Japanese samurai who risked their lives to learn the secrets of the West, and John “Iron Mad” Wilkinson, who didn’t let war between England and France stop him from plumbing Paris (The Wall Street Journal). “Integrating lively biography with technological clarity, Weightman converts the Industrial Revolution into an enjoyably readable period of history.” —Booklist “Skillfully stitching together thumbnail sketches of a large number of inventors, architects, engineers, and visionaries. . . . Weightman expertly marshals his cast of characters across continents and centuries, forging a genuinely global history that brings the collaborative, if competitive, business of industrial innovation to life.” —The New York Times Book Review
Pioneers of Modern Economics in Britain
Author: David GreenawayPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349093769
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This volume contains a series of biographical essays on seven of the most influential economists in Britain since World War II. Each essay gives background details and a critical assessment of the economist's work, examining his or her impact on the development of modern economics.
Thirteen pioneers.- v.2. Management in British industry.- v.3. The Hawthorne investigations
Author: Lyndall Fownes UrwickPublisher:
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Category : Industrial management
Languages : en
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Hugh ChisholmPublisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
Book Description
This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
Author: Robert C. AllenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521868270
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Why did the industrial revolution take place in 18th century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the 17th and 18th centuries.
The Workshop of the World
Author: Jonathan David ChambersPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
"The period of British economic history covered in these pages is that of Britain's transition from a primarily agricultural and commercial economy to a modern industrial state whose supremacy rested on her world-wide shipping and credit agencies and mutually advantageous relations with her dependent empire. At the end of this period, Britain as a pioneer of the world industrial revolution had given place to Britain, the world's banker, trader, and collier, in competition with other nations whom she had materially helped along that same way. In view of the efforts of developing nations today, the manner in which this first transition was managed becomes of particular import. Professor Chambers' admirably balanced summary touches on every important aspect of the change which 'involved the community in a simultaneous creation of new forms of industry and transport and in an immense effort in agriculture and building... (and) placed new strains on a social and political system which had to reconcile the demand for increased output with the dawning awareness on the part of labour that industrialization held the key to economic advance for all and not only for the privileged few.' Both text and bibliography have been completely revised for this new edition." - Back cover.
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