Making Sense of the Industrial Revolution

Synopsis of Making Sense of the Industrial Revolution

«Making Sense of the Industrial Revolution» is the historical study by Steven King and Geoffrey Timmins, published by Manchester University Press in paperback.

Study of the English Industrial Revolution based on case studies and contemporary documents. It analyzes economic structures, finance, technology, markets, demand and agriculture, as well as demographic changes, the household, families and the built environment. It reviews historiographical debates and argues for a regional approach.

Subtitled «English Economy and Society, 1700–1850», the work belongs to the «Manchester Studies in Modern History» series, comprises 416 pages and was published in 2001.

Intended for university students and readers with academic interest in the economic and social history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England.