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'A remarkable, original, spiky book of major significance compels the reader to give voice in admiration and in protest splendidly bold, structured, stimulating and provocative.' - New Society
'It still stands as one of the most encompassing, engaging accounts of the myriad complexities of the world's first Industrial Revolution.' - BBC History Magazine
'It still stands as one of the most encompassing, engaging accounts of the myriad complexities of the world's first Industrial Revolution.' - BBC History Magazine
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Bringing together subjects such as culture, religion, morals, politics, economics, and mentality, Perkin presents and applies a holistic concept of social history in the tradition of great historians of the past.
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MODERN society in Britain, as in all the 'developed' societies of East and West, stems directly from that 'vast increase of natural resources, labour, capital and enterprise' which began in Britain in the late eighteenth century and, spreading outwards from there like the ripples on a pond, is still in process of transforming the whole world. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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MODERN society in Britain, as in all the 'developed' societies of East and West, stems directly from that 'vast increase of natural resources, labour, capital and enterprise' which began in Britain in the late eighteenth century and, spreading outwards from there like the ripples on a pond, is still in process of transforming the whole world. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index
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