Article: The Industrial Revolution in Comparative Perspective.(Review)

CHRISTINE RIDER and MICHAEL THOMPSON (eds.), The Industrial Revolution in Comparative Perspective (Malabar, FL: Krieger Publishing Company, 2000. Pp.x + 268. P/back ISBN 0 89464 990 6, $24.50).

This book is part of the publisher's Open Forum series, which is written with a general as well as an academic readership in mind. It is the product of deliberations undertaken by 12 fortunate scholars who secured funding to meet together in Munich during the summer of 1995. Its purpose is to examine various aspects of the Industrial Revolution (here used as a composite term to cover industrialisation occurring in different countries at different times) by presenting 'a ...

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