Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Industrial Revolution	Connolly, Sean	Looks at the Industrial Revolution and its causes and consequences, using primary source materials.	OL104311W
Novels (Great Expectations / Oliver Twist / Tale of Two Cities)	Charles Dickens	Contains: - [Great Expectations](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8721462W) - [Oliver Twist](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8193478W) - [Tale of Two Cities](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL87…	OL14869391W
The most powerful idea in the world	William Rosen	If all measures of human advancement in the last hundred centuries were plotted on a graph, they would show an almost perfectly flat line until the eighteenth century, when the Industrial Revolution …	OL15659560W
Energy and the English Industrial Revolution	Edward Anthony Wrigley	"The industrial revolution transformed the productive power of societies. It did so by vastly increasing the individual productivity, thus delivering whole populations from poverty. In this new accou…	OL16976401W
The Industrial Revolution in United States History	Anita Louise McCormick	This book traces the evolution of modern conveniences, luxurious consumer goods, developing cities, and the problems of urban living. It describes how, in less than two hundred years, the United Stat…	OL17080021W
The European industrial revolution	Michael Burgan	Read about the events surrounding the rise of industry in Europe and learn how they have shaped our world today.	OL17879581W
Exceptionalism and industrialisation	Leandro Prados de la Escosura	"This book explores the question of British exceptionalism in the period from the Glorious Revolution to the Congress of Vienna. Leading historians examine why Great Britain emerged from years of sus…	OL18391328W
Life during the industrial revolution	Julia Garstecki	"Have you ever wondered what life was like for individuals and families in the Industrial Revolution? Learn about what their days consisted of, what they ate and wore, and more!"--Publisher's website.	OL18458312W
The industrial revolution in American history	Anita Louise McCormick	Traces the history of the industrial revolution from its roots in eighteenth-century England, through its beginnings in the United States, to its decline in the twentieth-century.	OL1851744W
The Industrial revolution, 1800-1850	Carlo Simoni,Pier Paolo Poggio	A color-illustrated examination of the Industrial Revolution in eleven areas: agriculture, medicine, living conditions, working conditions, production, raw materials, transportation, communication, e…	OL20425612W
City of light	Lauren Belfer	Louisa Barrett, headmistress of a prestigious girls' school in Buffalo in 1901, is a forward-looking, independent young woman. But the secret of her past - which connects her to the highest echelons …	OL20576W
An honest heart	Kaye Dacus	Set during the Industrial Revolution and the Great Exhibition of 1851. A physician with a secret past falls in love with the daughter of one of his patients and must choose between revealing his past…	OL20895645W
1493 for Young People	Rebecca Stefoff,Charles C. Mann,Charles Mann,James Fouhey,Rebecca Stefoff Charles C. Mann	"1493 for Young People by Charles C. Mann tells the gripping story of globalization through travel, trade, colonization, and migration from its beginnings in the fifteenth century to the present. How…	OL21102856W
The who's who of-- the Industrial Revolution	Clive Gifford	The Who's Who of the Industrial Revolution features such characters as Samuel Slater, the Englishman who introduced the cotton mill to the United States, starting a revolution in the American cotton …	OL24860896W
A New Order of Things	Paul E. Rivard	"Based on oral histories and archival documents, A New Order of Things offers a vast, accessible overview of the rise and collapse of an industry that forced New England into the modern age. Lavishly…	OL4486263W
The Industrial Revolution	James A. Corrick	Discusses the Industrial Revolution, including its birth in England, its spread to Europe and America, and its effects on society.	OL450796W
Dreams of Iron and Steel	Deborah Cadbury	A world that had changed little from the Middle Ages was altered beyond recognition by the engineering genius of the nineteenth century: rivers tamed, oceans pacified, continents bridged. In Dreams o…	OL5752140W
Immigration, migration, and the Industrial Revolution	Tracee Sioux	Describes how inventions such as the cotton gin transformed America from an agricultural country to an industrial one, and led to both problems and opportunities.	OL5968661W
A sheltering tree	Richard Parker	Describes the early days of the Industrial Revolution by tracing the pathways of two middle-class boys as one is forced into smuggling and the second becomes an apprentice baker.	OL6678152W
Good Money	George Anthony Selgin	"Good Money tells the story of British manufacturers' challenge to the Crown's monopoly on coinage. In the 1780s, when the Industrial Revolution was gathering momentum, the Royal Mint failed to produ…	OL9388713W