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050 _aHD 2321
_b.H36 1969
100 1 _aHammond, J. L.
_q(John Lawrence),
_d1872-1949.
_9132
_eauthor
245 1 4 _aThe rise of modern industry /
_cJ. L. Hammond ; and Barbara Hammond ; With an Introduction by R. M. Hartwell.
250 _aFirst Harper Torchbooks Edition
264 1 _aNew York :
_bHarper & Row, Publishers, Incorporated,
_c1969.
300 _axxx, 303 p. ;
_c20 cm
504 _aIndex: p. 285-303.
505 0 _aPart 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 --
505 0 _aPart 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 --
505 0 _aPart 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.
520 _a"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.
650 0 _aIndustries
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory.
_9133
650 0 _aCommerce
_xHistory.
_9134
651 0 _aGreat Britain
_xEconomic conditions.
_9114
651 0 _aGreat Britain
_xSocial conditions.
_9135
700 1 _aHammond, Barbara Bradby,
_d1873-1961.
_9136
_eauthor
700 1 _aHartwell, Ronald Max,
_d1921-2009.
_9137
_eAuthor of introduction, etc.
930 1 _hHC253
942 _cBOOKS