Toynbee Arnold. The Industrial Revolution

Read Books Ltd., 2013. — 150 p. –— ISBN 9781447483663, 1447483669.First published in 1884 under title: Lectures on the industrial revolution in England..The subject of these lectures is the Industrial and Agrarian Revolution at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. Including chapters on England in 1760, the mercantile system and Adam Smith, the growth of pauperism and the future of the working classes. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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 on society of this new discipline; viewed as a collection, they represent one of the first calls for economic history as an academic subject to be studied separately from political history. Given during the early 1880s, the popular addresses treat some of the most important economic topics of the day, from the role of trade unions to the relationship between wages and production.
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 on society of this new discipline; viewed as a collection, they represent one of the first calls for economic history as an academic subject to be studied separately from political history. Given during the early 1880s, the popular addresses treat some of the most important economic topics of the day, from the role of trade unions to the relationship between wages and production.Preface, by Arnold J. Toynbee.
Introductory.
England in 1760: Population.
England in 1760: Agriculture.
England in 1760: Manufactures and Trade.
England in 1760: The Decay of the Yeomanry.
England in 1760: The Condition of the Wage-Earners.
The Mercantile System and Adam Smith.
The Chief Features of the Revolution.
The Growth of Pauperism.
Malthus and the Law of Population.
The Wage-Fund Theory.
Ricardo and the Growth of Rent.
Two Theories of Economic Progress.
The Future of the Working Classes.
Notes.