Birth of Industrial Britain

<p>The Industrial Revolution had a profound and lasting effect on socioeconomic and cultural conditions in Britain.</p><p><em>The Birth of Industrial Britain </em>examines the impact of early industrialisation on British society in the century before 1850 coinciding with Britains transition from a late pre-industrial economy to one based on industrialisation and urbanisation.</p><p>This fully revised and updated second edition provides a comprehensive range of pedagogical material to support the text including a Glossary of terms people and parliamentary acts new primary source documents and a brand new Chronology and Whos Who section. <i>The Birth of Industrial Britain </i>provides an essential up-to-date synthesis of the impact of the Industrial Revolution on British society for students at all levels.</p>