The Industrial Revolution: The Birth of the Modern AgeBarnes & Noble, 1978 - 292 Seiten In the eighteenth century, England was transformed from an agricultural nation to an industrial one, as commerce, trade, transportation, and invention changed the iron, coal, and textile industries, giving birth to a new society. |
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Introduction I | 1 |
Population and Society in the Eighteenth Century | 5 |
A Map of Society 1688 22 | 22 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Abraham Darby agricultural Arkwright Ashton Bank of England became blast-furnaces Boulton and Watt Britain British industry Bubble Act building canal capital Carron cent cloth coal Coalbrookdale companies cottage cotton Darby death rate demand domestic economic eighteenth century employed enclosure engine England and Wales English exports factory farmers farms forge furnaces growth historians houses imports improvement income increase industrial development Industrial Revolution industrialists interest investment iron industry ironmasters John Lombe labour Lancashire land landowners living London machines major Manchester manufacturers ment merchants methods mill million needed Newcomen engine Nonconformists output Owen owners parish Parliament patent pig-iron population produce profits railway raw materials Richard Arkwright rise River Irwell roads Samuel Crompton small number social society spinning steam-engine tenants took towns turnpike turnpike trusts underdeveloped countries urban village wages waggons Watt's weavers Wilkinson woollen workers wrote