Remains of a Revolution
by Anthony Burton
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The Industrial Revolution was one of the greatest changes in the history of society. It transformed Britain's green and pleasant land from an agricultural world into one dominated by machinery: spinning and weaving were mechanized; roads, railways and canals spread across the country; mining and factories wiped out the cottage industries and eroded a rural way of life for ever. Man's immense inventiveness and skill also created appalling suffering and cruelty, sacrificing humanity for profit show more in a society riven with inequalities that remian today. show lessTags
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Anthony Burton is an author and broadcaster who has written many reputable books on history, industrial history and transport history. He was a born in 1934 and new lies in Stroud. Gloucestershire, with his wife.
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