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The King George III Collection
www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/collections/
exhiblets/george3/revolution.asp
This Science Museum (London) website covers advancements made during
the 18th and 19th centuries and explains the shift of science becoming
an 'enterprise'.
The French Revolution and Science
www.horuspublications.com/
guide/so105.html
A detailed bibliography of scientific advancements made during the
Age of Enlightenment and the Revolution.
Industrialization: The First Phase: 1700-1850
http://emayzine.com
/lectures/indust~2.htm
An essay on the British textiles revolution.
Industrial Revolution
www.fordham.edu/halsall
/mod/modsbook14.html
An excellent gateway site for information on agricultural, textile
and engineering advancements. Also provides essays on the resulting social
reform and new distinctions of class.
Books
The First Industrial Revolution by Phyllis Deane (Cambridge University
Press, 1980) £16.95
This book identifies the strategic changes in economic organisation, industrial
structure and technological progress that took place in Britain between
1750 and 1850.
The Industrial Revolution 1760-1830 by T S Ashton and Pat Hudson
(Oxford University Press, 1997) £11.99
Ashton writes of innovation as not just an economic course but as a social
and cultural process influenced by war and peace, law and institutions.
This book provides the true causes of population growth in the 18th century,
the nature of the supply of capital, and approaches to labour studies.
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