This series, fully illustrated with maps and half-tones, is written for general readers as well as the student. In illuminating the anonymous lives of our prede

Over the long eighteenth century English governance was transformed by large adjustments to the legal instruments and processes of power. This book documents an

Presents a new perspective on the Industrial Revolution providing far more than just an account of industrial change. Looks at the development of the economic s

In this wide-ranging history of modern Britain, Eric Evans surveys every aspect of the period in which Britain was transformed into the world's first industrial