Opis: Industrial History of Modern England (Classic Reprint) - Perris George Herbert

Excerpt from Industrial History of Modern England

The purpose of this volume is to outline the facts and to interpret the spirit of the economic history of Great Britain in the last hundred and fifty years. The writer believed it to be a useful task to focus within such limits as these a narrative of the social transformation through which the mother-country of industrialism has passed since the invention of the steam-engine; and, from this, he was led on to an attempt to characterise the period, and the main current of thought which the play of economic forces has provoked.

With so vast a subject, and great libraries of undigested evidence challenging attention, it seemed beyond hope to escape all the pitfalls in the way of such an essay. The recent accumulations of statistical material, in particular, must be mastered, their essential results obtained, and the contributory detail then eliminated, like the scaffolding when a building is complete, lest the large outlines be obscured. The writer enjoyed, however, beside the interest of the task, the stimulus of contact with industry and business at several points. Trades translated themselves back out of statistics into terms of flesh and blood.

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Szczegóły: Industrial History of Modern England (Classic Reprint) - Perris George Herbert

Nazwa: Industrial History of Modern England (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Perris George Herbert
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330393000
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 628
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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