Technology in the Industrial Revolution

by Barbara Hahn

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1316637468
• ISBN13: 9781316637463
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 8.9"