Industrialisation & the Nineteenth Century
The fastest change in material conditions in human history.
12 topics · 1 curated work
Topics
- 01The Industrial Revolution
- 02Factory System & Labour
- 03Urbanisation in the 19th Century
- 04Railways & Steam
- 05Rise of the Working Class
- 06Abolition of Slavery
- 07The American Civil War
- 08Italian & German Unification
- 09The Scramble for Africa
- 10Victorian Society
- 11Meiji Restoration
- 12The Second Industrial Revolution
Curated reading
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Primary sources and full treatments.
- BookThe Making of the English Working ClassE. P. Thompson, 1963
A class is made by people, not produced by economics, and this rescues the losers of industrialisation from 'the condescension of posterity'.