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Britain's Industrial Revolution
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Britain's Industrial Revolution

Subtitle The Making of a Manufacturing People: 1700-1870
By Barrie Trinder
Published by Carnegie Publishing Ltd
ISBN 9781859361757
Winter 2013

Synopsis

The Industrial Revolution was one of the defining changes of human history. Manufacturing was transformed and Britain became the workshop of the world. Spectacular profits and fortunes, danger, pollution and inequality between rich and poor, all described in rich, vivid and readable detail by ‘a master’ of the subject.

Author's Biography

Barrie Trinder is a well respected, internationally renowned and widely published author in the area of industrial heritage. Sir Neil Cossons describes Barrie's work in this book as 'magisterial and comprehensive'.

Reviews

'Compendious yet sharply incisive,expert yet wise, academically exact yet visually compelling and at times poetic' Dr Peter Wakelin, writer on The Guardian newspaper.

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