Short History of the British Industrial Revolution

EMMA GRIFFIN is Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of East Anglia. She has previously taught at Cambridge and Sheffield and held visiting fellowships in New York and Paris. She is the author of England's Revelry: A History of Popular Sports and Pastimes, 1660-1800 (OUP 2005) and Blood Sport: A History of Hunting in Britain Since 1066 (Yale 2007) and has appeared on BBC radio and television.

• Introduction Counting Growth: Measuring the Economy A Growing Population A Mobile Population Worlds of Work The 'Mechanical Age': Technology, Innovation and Industrialisation Coal: the Key to the British Industrial Revolution? Why was Britain first? The Global Context for Industrialisation Winners and Losers: Standards of Living in the Industrial Revolution Bibliography Index.

This book is an ideal starting point for students studying the industrial revolution, offering up-to-date and penetrating coverage of existing scholarship, while subtly making an original contribution to our understanding of the causes and character of the world’s first industrial revolution.