The common view of the rise and relative fall of Britain in the 19th century is that Britain reigned supreme from 1851 until its gradual decline in 1870. These essays aim to challenge this stereotype of the golden age by concentrating on central aspects of social and industrial change.
The complex linkages between technology change and its knowledge base have never been settled by historians. Every new theory is perplexed by every new piece of empirical research. This is the focus for the two special collections that make up this volume.
This book provides a highly reliable guide to the industrial economy and history and will be of interest to those involved in Asian studies, Japanese studies, economists and professionals in business and enterprise culture
Through one outstanding family, these multidisciplinary essays demonstrate the modernising power of religious Dissent across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Through one outstanding family, these multidisciplinary essays demonstrate the modernising power of religious Dissent across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
