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Iron, Steam and Money: The Making of the Industrial Revolution by Roger Osborne is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Iron, Steam and Money: The Making of the Industrial Revolution about?
In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. Inventors, industrialists and entrepreneurs ushered in the age of powered machinery and the factory, and thereby changed the whole of human society, bringing into being new methods of social and economic organisation, new social classes, and new political forces. The Industrial Revolution also dramatically altered humanity's relation to the natural world and embedded the belief that change, not stasis, is the necessary backdrop for human existence. Iron, Steam and Money tells the thrilling story of those few decades, the moments of inspiration, the rivalries, skulduggery and death threats, and the tireless perseverance of the visionaries who made it all happen. Richard Arkwright, James Watt, Richard Trevithick and Josiah Wedgwood are among the giants whose achievements and tragedies fill these pages. In this authoritative study Roger Osborne also shows how and why the revolution happened, revealing pre-industrial Britain as a surprisingly affluent society, with wealth spread widely through the population, and with craft industries in every town, village and front parlour
Who reads Iron, Steam and Money: The Making of the Industrial Revolution?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Roger Osborne
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781446483282
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, European History, Humanities