Iron, Steam & Money: The Making of the Industrial Revolution - Brossura

Osborne, Roger

Brossura

ISBN 10: 184595212X ISBN 13: 9781845952129

Casa editrice: Pimlico, 2014

Riassunto

In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. Inventors, industrialists and entrepreneurs ushered in the age of powered machinery and the factory, and thereby changed the whole of human society, bringing into being new methods of social and economic organisation, new social classes, and new political forces. The Industrial Revolution also dramatically altered humanity's relation to the natural world and embedded the belief that change, not stasis, is the necessary backdrop for human existence.

Iron, Steam and Money tells the thrilling story of those few decades, the moments of inspiration, the rivalries, skulduggery and death threats, and the tireless perseverance of the visionaries who made it all happen. Richard Arkwright, James Watt, Richard Trevithick and Josiah Wedgwood are among the giants whose achievements and tragedies fill these pages. In this authoritative study Roger Osborne also shows how and why the revolution happened, revealing pre-industrial Britain as a surprisingly affluent society, with wealth spread widely through the population, and with craft industries in every town, village and front parlour. The combination of disposable income, widespread demand for industrial goods, and a generation of time-served artisans created the unique conditions that propelled humanity into the modern world.

The industrial revolution was arguably the most important episode in modern human history; Iron, Steam and Money reminds us of its central role, while showing the extraordinary excitement of those tumultuous decades.

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Recensione:

"Ably handling a mass of material, Osborne explores both the technological side of his subject and its human aspect" (Christopher Smith UK Regional Press Syndication)

"Osborne fires [the Industrial Revolution] up with great gusto" (Iain Finlayson The Times)

"Detailed and scholarly" (Steve Craggs UK Regional Press Syndication)

"A truly rattling good yarn" (Jonathan Glancey Country Life)

"Detailed and scholarly" (UK Regional Press Syndication)

Descrizione del libro:

A fresh look at the decades when British ingenuity and technological innovation changed the course of human history and ushered in the modern world.

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• Editore: Pimlico
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 184595212X
• ISBN 13: 9781845952129
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400