TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hammond,J.L.
AU  - Hammond,Barbara Bradby
AU  - Hartwell,Ronald Max
TI  - The rise of modern industry
AV  - HD 2321 .H36 1969
PY  - 1969///
CY  - New York
PB  - Harper & Row, Publishers, Incorporated
KW  - Industries
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Commerce
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - Index: p. 285-303; Part I - Commerce before the industrial revolution - I From the Levant to the Atlantic - II England as an Atlantic power - III The effect of the wars of Europe --; Part II - The English industrial revolution - V The revolution in transport - VI The destruction of the peasant village - VII The destruction of custom in industry - VIII The steam engine - IX The revolution in iron - X The revolution in pottery - XI The revolution in cotton --; Part III - The social consequences - XII The shadow of the slave trade - XIII The curse of Midas - XIV A world in disorder - XV The beginnings of a new society - XVI The world economic crisis of the twentieth century
N2  - "This book is written for the general reader and not for the specialist. It is an attempt to put the Industrial Revolution in its place in history, and to give an idea both of its significance and of the causes that determined the age and the society in which it began."-- Pref., xxv
ER  -