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The Industrial Revolution
Jeff Horn
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Description for The Industrial Revolution
Hardback. Explores the turning points and key events in business history. This book explains the nature of these changes, how they came about, how people reacted to the new economic environment, and the direct impact that they have had on the way business is conducted. It addresses how the Industrial Revolution progressed in Europe, the US, and globally. Series: Milestones in Business History Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; HBTK; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 241 x 15. Weight in Grams: 420.
The confluence of developments in technology, labor and management practice, and market expansion in the period from 1760 to 1850 so drastically altered the context of economic relations that, taken together, these changes have earned the name, Industrial Revolution. This book, the first in a series of titles to explore turning points and important events in business history, explains the nature of these changes, how they came about, how people reacted to the new economic environment, and the direct impact that they have had on the way business is conducted today. This volume will address how the Industrial Revolution ... Read more
The confluence of developments in technology, labor and management practice, and market expansion in the period from 1760 to 1850 so drastically altered the context of economic relations that, taken together, these changes have earned the name, Industrial Revolution. This book, the first in a series of titles to explore turning points and important events in business history, explains the nature of these changes, how they came about, how people reacted to the new economic environment, and the direct impact that they have had on the way business is conducted today. This volume will address how the Industrial Revolution ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Milestones in Business History Series
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780313338533
SKU
V9780313338533
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About Jeff Horn
Jeff Horn is Associate Professor of History at Manhattan College. He serves on the editorial board for the Proceedings of the Western Society for French History and is a book review editor for the on-line discussion group, H-France. He is the author of two monographs and has published widely, both in French and in English, on 18th- and 19th-Century French ... Read more
Reviews for The Industrial Revolution
Horn explains for the general reader how the Industrial Revolution resulted in the system of trade, conquest and colonization practiced by the West up to the present, how Western domestic practices presaged its behavior internationally, and how Western states worked for or against industrialization. He describes the standards of living during the Industrial Revolution, the theoretical and historical foundations of ... Read more