Iron, Steam & Money: The Making of the Industrial Revolution

by Roger Osborne

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184595212X
• ISBN13: 9781845952129
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Pimlico
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"