An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England

Chapter 8

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The Period Of The Industrial Revolution

_Economic Changes of the Later Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries_

55. National Affairs from 1760 to 1830..................... 199

56. The Great Mechanical Inventions........................ 203

57. The Factory System..................................... 212

58. Iron, Coal, and Transportation......................... 214

59. The Revival of Enclosures.............................. 216

60. Decay of Domestic Manufacture.......................... 220

61. The _Laissez-faire_ Theory............................. 224

62. Cessation of Government Regulation..................... 228

63. Individualism.......................................... 232

64. Social Conditions at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century................................................ 235

65. Bibliography........................................... 239