Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England: Popular Addresses, Notes and Other Fragments

by Arnold Joseph Toynbee and Benjamin Jowett

Book Overview

Widely credited as having established the term 'industrial revolution' as a historical concept, Arnold Toynbee (1852-83) was among the most outspoken political economists of the nineteenth century. This volume is a collection of his Balliol lectures and other public addresses, originally published posthumously in 1884. The lectures, often humorous, discuss developments in contemporary political economy, the views of other commentators, and the impact...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110803649X
• ISBN13: 9781108036498
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"