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FURTHER READING
Maxine Berg, 'The Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820: Industry, Innovation and Work in Britain' (Routledge, 1994)
Jeff Horn, Leonard N. Rosenband and Merritt Roe Smith eds., 'Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution' (MIT Press, Cambridge, 2010). This provides a number of essays from leading writers on the subject and situates the topic within a global context.
Emma Griffin, 'A Short History of the Industrial Revolution' (Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2010). This is a clearly written overview of several important key themes and written as an accessible text book.
Joel Mokyr, 'The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain, 1700-1850' (Yale, 2010)
Jan Luiten van Zanden, 'The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution: The European Economy in a Global Perspective, 1000-1800' (Brill, 2009)
John Langton and R.J. Morris, 'Atlas of Industrializing Britain, 1780-1914' (Routledge, 1987)
John Rule, 'The Vital Century: England's Developing Economy, 1714-1815 (Social & Economic History of England)' (Longman, 1992)
Jeremy Black, 'An Illustrated History of Eighteenth Century Britain, 1688-1793' (Manchester University Press, 1997)
Raymond Williams, 'Culture and Society 1780-1950' (Columbia University Press, 1983)
E. P. Thompson, 'The Making of the English Working Class' (Penguin; New edition, 2002)
Gordon S. Haight (ed.), 'The Portable Victorian Reader' (Viking Portable Library; New edition, 1981)
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