Myth, history, and the Industrial Revolution / D.C. Coleman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coleman, D. C. (Donald Cuthbert), 1920-1995, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial revolution--Great Britain.

Industrial revolution.

Businesspeople--Great Britain--History.

Businesspeople.

Great Britain--Economic conditions--1760-1860.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; Rio Grande, Ohio : Hambledon Press, 1992.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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

Contents:

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

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826483454

0826483453

9780826434180

0826434185