Technology in the Industrial Revolution (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107186804)

Technological change is about more than inventions. This concise history of the Industrial Revolution places the eighteenth-century British Industrial Revolution in global context, locating its causes in government protection, global competition, and colonialism. Inventions from spinning jennies to steam engines came to define an age that culminated in the acceleration of the fashion cycle, the intensification in demand and supply of raw materials and the rise of a plantation system that would reconfigure world history in favour of British (and European) global domination. In this accessible analysis of the classic case of rapid and revolutionary technological change, Barbara Hahn takes readers from the north of England to slavery, cotton plantations, the Anglo-Indian trade and beyond - placing technological change at the centre of world history.

Author: Barbara Hahn
ISBN-10: 1107186803
ISBN-13: 9781107186804
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/23/2020
Pages: 236
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2020