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Article: Laurence Ince. Neath Abbey and the Industrial Revolution.(Book Review)
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- Albion
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- June 22, 2003
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Charleston, S.C.: Tempus Publishing, Ltd.; dist. by Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, S. C. 2001. Pp. 192. $27.99 paper. ISBN 0-7524-2145-X.
Despite the title, this is one of those studies that contributes, perhaps inadvertently, to a dilution of the word "revolution" to describe the locus of economic and social change that transformed Great Britain into an industrial nation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Laurence Ince, in Neath Abbey and the Industrial Revolution, unveils a gradual, almost leisurely process of resource exploitation, landscape alteration, and cultural adaptation in one of Wales's industrial cradles. Certainly, the Neath Abbey district ...