Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England - Popular Addresses, Notes and Other Fragments

Klappentext Selected posthumously from Arnold Toynbee's lectures, this 1884 collection is one of the first scholarly treatments of the Industrial Revolution. Zusammenfassung Originally written for undergraduates! this posthumously published collection of lectures from 1884 tackles many of the misconceptions held by nineteenth-century economists. Where other commentators often dealt with the subject of the Industrial Revolution in the abstract! Arnold Toynbee applies here an evidence-based approach! with astute but also entertaining results. Inhaltsverzeichnis Memoir Benjamin Jowett; Prefatory note; Ricardo and the Old Political Economy: 1. The change that has come over political economy; 2. The philosophic assumption of Ricardo; The Industrial Revolution: 1. Introductory; 2. England in 1760 - population; 3. England in 1760 - agriculture; 4. England in 1760 - manufacture and trade; 5. England in 1760 - the decay of the yeomanry; 6. England in 1760 - the condition of the wage-earners; 7. The mercantile system and Adam Smith; 8. The chief features of the revolution; 9. The growth of pauperism; 10. Malthus and the law of population; 11. The wage-fund theory; 12. Ricardo and the growth of rent; 13. Two theories of economic progress; 14. The future of the working classes; Popular Addresses: 1. Wages and natural law; 2. Industry and democracy; 3. Are radicals socialists?; 4. The education of co-operators; 5. The ideal relation of church and state; Notes and jottings; Index; Appendix.

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• Authors: Arnold Toynbee
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.11.2011
• EAN: 9781108036498
• ISBN: 978-1-108-03649-8
• No. of pages: 364
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - British & Irish History, 17th & 18th Centuries
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; England, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history