1st Edition

England in Transition Life and Work in the Eighteenth Century

By M. Dorothy George Copyright 1931
244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

England in Transition (1931) examines life and work in eighteenth-century England, a time of massive upheaval as the Industrial Revolution changed every aspect of the country’s economic and social conditions.

1. Old England: A Golden Age?  2. Defoe’s England: London and the Country  3. The Prelude to the Machine Age  4. The Middle Years, or the New Humanitarianism  5. The Village in Transition  6. The Coming of Industrialism  7. Child Labour and Apprenticeship  8. Some Conclusions

Biography

M. Dorothy George