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Industrial Britain

Between roughly 1760 and 1840, on a small wet island off the northwest coast of Europe, human beings broke through a ceiling on productivity that had...

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Between roughly 1760 and 1840, on a small wet island off the northwest coast of Europe, human beings broke through a ceiling on productivity that had constrained every previous society in history. Key sections include: Cotton, Coal, & Iron.; Opening The thing that had never happened.; Chapter I Why Britain, why then.; Chapter II Newcomen's atmospheric engine.; Chapter III James Watt's separate condenser.; Chapter IV The cotton industry.; Chapter V Arkwright and the factory system.; Chapter VI Manchester.; Chapter VII Iron and coke.; Chapter VIII The canal age..

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  1. 01Cotton, Coal, & Iron.
  2. 02Opening The thing that had never happened.
  3. 03Chapter I Why Britain, why then.
  4. 04Chapter II Newcomen's atmospheric engine.
  5. 05Chapter III James Watt's separate condenser.
  6. 06Chapter IV The cotton industry.
  7. 07Chapter V Arkwright and the factory system.
  8. 08Chapter VI Manchester.
  9. 09Chapter VII Iron and coke.
  10. 10Chapter VIII The canal age.
  11. 11Chapter IX The railway age.
  12. 12Chapter X Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
  13. 13Chapter XI King Coal.
  14. 14Chapter XII Child labour.
  15. 15Chapter XIII The Luddites.
  16. 16Chapter XIV The 1832 Reform Act.
  17. 17Chapter XV The Chartists.
  18. 18Chapter XVI The new cities.
  19. 19Chapter XVII Cholera and public health.
  20. 20Chapter XVIII The empire feeds the mills.
  21. 21Chapter XIX 1851: The Great Exhibition.
  22. 22Chapter XX The workshop of the world.
  23. 23Chapter XXI The Lunar Society.
  24. 24Chapter XXII Bessemer and steel.
  25. 25Chapter XXIII The standard of living debate.
  26. 26Chapter XXIV The information revolution.
  27. 27Chapter XXV The long retreat.
  28. 28Chapter XXVI What survives.
  29. 29Chapter XXVII Twenty-five essentials.
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII Watch & read.
  31. 31The end of the deck.
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