Industrial Revolution


The Image Maker
North and South
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective (New Approaches to Economic and Social History)
Hard Times
Industry and Empire: The Birth of the Industrial Revolution
The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848
Industrial Revolutionaries: The Making of the Modern World 1776-1914
The Armor of Light (Kingsbridge, #4)
The Industrial Revolution in World History
The Communist Manifesto
Liberty's Dawn: A People's History of the Industrial Revolution
Carnegie's Maid
Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution
Oliver Twist
Karl Polanyi
The story has been told innumerable times: how the expansion of markets, the presence of coal and iron as well as a humid climate favorable to the cotton industry, the multitude of people dispossessed by the new eighteenth century enclosures, the existence of free institutions, the invention of the machines, and other causes interacted in such a manner as to bring about the Industrial Revolution. It has been shown conclusively that no one single cause deserves to be lifted out of the chain and s ...more
Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time

در پایان قرن نوزدهم میانگین درآمد کشیشان انگلیسی کمتر از نصف پانزده سال پیش و از نظر قدرت خرید در حد بخور و نمیر بود و شغل کشیشی در روستاها کاری تشریفاتی و بی جذابیت شده بود. بسیاری از کشیشان دیگر استطاعت ازدواج نداشتند و کسانی که فکر و امکانات داشتند استعداد خود را در جای دیگری به کار می گرفتند. دیوید کانادین در کتاب افول و سقوط طبقه ی اشراف بریتانیا می نویسد در پایان قرن نوزدهم بهترین مغزهای یک نسل از کلیسا بیرون رفته بودند.
Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life

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