Industry and Empire: The Birth of the Industrial Revolution

Premier historian Eric Hobsbawm’s brilliant study of the Industrial Revolution, which sold more than a quarter of a million copies in its original edition, is now back in print, updated for a new generation. In Industry and Empire, Hobsbawm explores the origin and dramatic course of the Industrial Revolution over two hundred and fifty years and its influence on social and political institutions. He describes and accounts for Britain’s rise as the first industrial power, its decline from domination, its special relation with the rest of the world, and the effects of this trajectory on the lives of its ordinary citizens. This new edition includes a fascinating summary of events of the last twenty years, and an illuminating new conclusion.

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• The Age of Empire: 1875-1914
• The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991
• The Industrial Revolution in World History
• 1848: The Revolutionary Tide in Europe (Revolutions in the Modern World)
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• The Story of American Freedom (Norton Paperback)
• A Short History of the French Revolution, 1789-1799