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The Industrial Revolution has sometimes been regarded as a catastrophe which desecrated the English landscape and brought social opporession and appalling physical hardship to the workers. In this book, however, it is presented as an important and beneficial mark of progress. In spite ofdestructive wars and a rapid growth of population, the material living standards of most of the British people improved, and the technical innovations not only brought economic rewards but also provoked greater intellectual ingenuity. Innovation is therefore seen by Ashton not just as an economiccourse but as a social and cultural process influenced by factors such as war and peace and the framework of law and institutions. Lucidly argued and authoritative, this bookplaces the phenomenon of the Industrial Revolution in a stimulating perpsective. A new Preface by Professor Pat Hudson outlines the results of recent research precipitated by Ashton's themes: the true causes of population growth in the eighteenth century, the nature of the supply of capital, and the new approaches to labour studies amongst others. This Preface places TheIndustrial Revolution in its contemporary context, and a new thoroughly updated bibliography means that fifty years on, Ashton's work can continue to be of value to modern readers.… (altro)
Originally printed in 1948, this was the standard short survey of the period for thirty years. Readable, but definitely only the first step into study of a very complex phenomena. ( )
In the short span of years between the accession of George III and that of his son, William IV, the face of England changed. Areas that for centuries had been cultivated as open fields, or had lain untended as common pasture, were hedged or fenced; hamlets grew into populous towns; and chimney stacks rose to dwarf the ancient spires.
Nel breve giro di anni fra l'ascesa al trono di Giorgio III e quella di suo figlio Guglielmo IV, l'Inghilterra mutò volto.
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Everywhere [the industrial revolution] is associated with a growth of population, with the application of science to industry, and with a more intensive and extensive use of capital.
It was not the least of the achievements of the industrial revolution that it drew into the economic system part of that legion of the lost, and that it turned many of the irregulars into efficient, if over-regimented, members of an industrial army.
there was a substitution of "flower of wheat" for rye and oatmeal; and meat, which had been a rarity, became, with potatoes, the staple dish on the artisan's table.
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There are today on the plains of India and China men and women, plague-ridden and hungry, living lives little better, to outward appearance, than those of the cattle that toil with them by day and share their places of sleep by night. Such Asiatic standards, and such unmechanized horrors, are the lot of those who increase their numbers without passing through an industrial revolution.
Oggi, nelle pianure dell'Asia ci sono uomini e donne coperti di piaghe e affamati che conducono una vita non molto diversa, all'apparenza, da quella delle bestie che faticano con loro di giorno e dividono i loro giacigli durante la notte: questi livelli asiatici e questi orrori non meccanizzati sono il destino dei popoli che crescono di numero senza passare attraverso una rivoluzione industriale.
The Industrial Revolution has sometimes been regarded as a catastrophe which desecrated the English landscape and brought social opporession and appalling physical hardship to the workers. In this book, however, it is presented as an important and beneficial mark of progress. In spite ofdestructive wars and a rapid growth of population, the material living standards of most of the British people improved, and the technical innovations not only brought economic rewards but also provoked greater intellectual ingenuity. Innovation is therefore seen by Ashton not just as an economiccourse but as a social and cultural process influenced by factors such as war and peace and the framework of law and institutions. Lucidly argued and authoritative, this bookplaces the phenomenon of the Industrial Revolution in a stimulating perpsective. A new Preface by Professor Pat Hudson outlines the results of recent research precipitated by Ashton's themes: the true causes of population growth in the eighteenth century, the nature of the supply of capital, and the new approaches to labour studies amongst others. This Preface places TheIndustrial Revolution in its contemporary context, and a new thoroughly updated bibliography means that fifty years on, Ashton's work can continue to be of value to modern readers.
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La rivoluzione industriale in Inghilterra è un periodo intenso, cruciale, la cui prima fase, fra il 1760 e il 1830, ha significato fondamentali cambiamenti in tutti i settori: dall'agricoltura ai trasporti, dalla società alla tecnica ed alla finanza. Numerosi e diversi gli elementi trainanti che l'hanno determinata. La macchina a vapore, ad esempio, con la quale spesso si identifica, è solo uno tra i tanti fattori dell'industrializzazione e solo una fra le innumerevoli innovazioni tecniche dell'epoca. Un saggio fondamentale, che descrive le trasformazioni e i fattori di sviluppo, offrendo un quadro esaustivo della culla culturale che, a buon diritto, si può definire l'origine del mondo contemporaneo.
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