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From:Business History (Vol. 43, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedCHARLES MORE, Understanding the Industrial Revolution (London: Routledge, 2000. Pp.ix + 188. H/back ISBN 0 415 18405 5, [pounds sterling]45; P/back ISBN 0 415 18405 3, [pounds sterling]13.99). There is a burgeoning...
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From:The English Historical Review (Vol. 117, Issue 471) Peer-Reviewedby Charles More (London: Routledge, 2000; pp. ix+188. 13.99 [pounds sterling]). The author states that `This book is designed to make the Industrial Revolution more comprehensible to students and non-economic...
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From:Urban History Review (Vol. 19, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWrigley, E.A. Continuity, Chance and Change; The Character of the Industrial Revolution in England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. viii, 146. Figures and Tables. Having established himself as the...
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From:Kennedy School Review (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedThe spectacular meltdown in the financial markets is not an end in itself but another leap in the long journey that mankind set off somewhere at the dawn of the 18th century. Before the Industrial Revolution lifted the...
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From:Social Research (Vol. 61, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedStudies of women's history and women's role in the British Industrial Revolution show how social historians can fruitfully expand the focus of their subject matter. By recognizing the interdependence of economics, social...
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From:Journal of Economic Issues (Vol. 32, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBy John Mills. New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1998. Pp. 177. As 11 countries in the European Union (EU) go about setting up a common currency, the euro, there could hardly be a more timely book than John Mills's...
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From:Labour/Le Travail (Issue 74) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction On 26 May 2014, aT the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association held at Brock University in St. Catharines, five of Bettina Bradbury's former PhD students spoke before an overflowing room,...
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From:Victorian Studies (Vol. 56, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA Genius for Money: Business, Art, and the Morrisons, by Caroline Dakers; pp. xiii + 326. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011, $40.00, 25.00 [pounds sterling]. James Morrison was born into obscurity as...
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From:Journal of International Affairs (Vol. 72, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe mandate of the Journal of International Affairs is to provide a forum for exploring issues and offering innovative solutions to problems of global concern. This guiding principle has led the Journal to focus on a...
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From:Victorian Studies (Vol. 59, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWanting and Having: Popular Politics and Liberal Consumerism in England, 1830-70, by Peter Gurney; xiii + 335. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015, 75.00 [pounds sterling], $110.00. In Wanting and Having:...
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From:The Science Teacher (Vol. 87, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEnvironmental education for all students is becoming more urgent as societies strive to deal with challenges such as climate change and loss of biodiversity. Teachers have an important role to play in defining the...
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From:Journal of Developing Areas (Vol. 55, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEver-increasing unemployment or underemployment of educated youth is taking its toll on Bangladesh as it is giving birth to new social unrest in the country. While its national average unemployment rate is 4.2 per cent,...
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From:Papers on Language & Literature (Vol. 55, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedNicholas Davis, Head of Society and Innovation at the World Economic Forum, recognized in 2015 that we live in the era of the "'Fourth Industrial Revolution': a fundamental shift in how we produce, consume and relate to...
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From:Plastics Engineering (Vol. 74, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedMore than 240 attendees from more than 20 countries arrived in Rome this March for the 11th European Thermoforming Conference hosted by the SPE European Thermoforming Division. Major themes included the application of...
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From:Harvard International Review (Vol. 33, Issue 1)There has been some modest progress over the past 12 months in the international negotiations over climate change, but there is still an insufficient understanding of the urgency with which the science indicates we...
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From:Construction and Building Materials (Vol. 23, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT This paper dilates upon the developments and the evolution of the nomenclature of structural metals in the building industry during the period 1860-1914. When turning to 19th century literature, the iron and...
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From:Business History Review (Vol. 71, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe book 'The Visible Hand,' by economist Alfred D. Chandler, Jr, has influenced business, economic, and organizational historians. The book is an account of the growth of new business enterprises in the US. Data on the...
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From:Houston Journal of International Law (Vol. 34, Issue 1)I. INTRODUCTION Fears over changes in the environment have plagued mankind for centuries. Until relatively recently, humans were at the mercy of the environment with no protections besides rudimentary dwellings and...
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From:Accounting Historians Journal (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: In a recent Accounting History article, Sy and Tinker (S&T) [2005] critique accounting history for its support of "archivalism" and empiricism in light of irrefutable arguments against these "antiquarian...
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From:History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past (Vol. 26, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedArnold Toynbee's lectures on the Industrial Revolution (published in 1884) were the first--and the most influential--attempt to historicize Britain's radical transition to a machine-based economy. This article locates...