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Social Capital, Trust and the Industrial Revolution
1780–1880
Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History
The first text to examine the concept of trust and the role that it played on the Industrial Revolution, this book is a key resource for students’ studying nineteenth century British history as well as historically minded sociologists. Analytical in style and comprehensive in approach, Social...
Published January 17th 2007 by Routledge
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An Economic History of London 1800-1914
In 1800 London was already the largest city in the world, and over the course of the next century its population grew rapidly, reaching over seven million by 1914. Historians have often depicted London after the Industrial Revolution as an industrial backwater that declined into the mass...
Published April 5th 2006 by Routledge