The Birth of Industrial Britain: Social Change, 1750-1850 (Seminar Studies In History)

by Dr Kenneth Morgan (Author)

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  2004

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  The companion volume to The Birth of Industrial Britain: Economic Change, together they provide a comprehensive guide to Britain's development as the first industrial power. This volume focuses on the social impact of early industrializaton on the population and looks at living standards, work and leisure, crime and the law, religion, education, the Poor Law and popular protest. An excellent introduction providing a clear and readable account for students of modern British social and economic history.