Industrial Revolution had a profound and lasting effect on socioeconomic and cultural conditions in Britain,
The Birth of Industrial Britain examines the impact of early industrialisation on British society in the century before, coinciding with Britain's transition from a late preindustrial economy to one based on industrialisation and urbanisation.
This fully revised and updated second edition provides a comprehensive range of pedagogical material to support the text, including a Glossary of terms, people and parliamentary acts, new primary source documents and a brand new Chronology and 'Who's Who' section.
The Birth of Industrial Britain provides an
essential uptodate synthesis of the impact of the Industrial Revolution on British society for students at all levels.
Kenneth Morhan is primarily an economic and social historian of the British Atlantic world in the long eighteenth century.
His particular academic specialism is the history of merchants, ships, foreign trade and ports, He also has subsidiary academic interests in Australian history and in music history, He currently teaches at Brunel University, London, He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, .