Atlas of Industrializing Britain, 1780-1914
Details:
- Author(s) Langton, John, & R J Morris (eds)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1986
- Pages 246pp; illus
- Publisher Methuen
- Place Published London
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Portrays cartographically, often between two points in time, movement in the location of production units, growth of output, etc, of manufacturing and service industries; of macro indicators such as population, settlements, wages, power resources; of resulting human condition such as poverty, wealth, worker action, unionism, education, religion, etc. Sectors covered, each by a leading authority, include transport, sea trade, textiles, chemicals, brewing and distilling, leather footwear, iron and steel, shipbuilding, engineering, banking, etc