Technological change is about more than inventions. This concise history of the Industrial Revolution places the eighteenth-century British Industrial Revolution in global context, locating its causes in government protection, global competition, and colonialism. Inventions from spinning jennies to steam engines came to define an age that culminated in the acceleration of the fashion cycle, the intensification in demand and supply of raw materials and the rise of a plantation system that would reconfigure world history in favour of British (and European) global domination. In this accessible analysis of the classic case of rapid and revolutionary technological change, Barbara Hahn takes readers from the north of England to slavery, cotton plantations, the Anglo-Indian trade and beyond - placing technological change at the centre of world history.

Author: Barbara Hahn
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/12/2020
Series: New Approaches to the History of Science and Medicine
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.8lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.20w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781316637463


Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2020

About the Author
Hahn, Barbara: - Barbara Hahn is a prize-winning author in business history and the history of technology. Her publications include Plantation Kingdom: The South and Its Global Commodities (2016), which she co-authored. She is Associate Professor of History at Texas Tech University and was the associate editor of the journal Technology and Culture.