Author: PERKIN, HAROLD
Title: The Origins of Modern English Society, 1780-1880
Description: London, Routledge. 1981. (ISBN: 0710072570) Soft Cover, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean crisp very tight copy with unmarked partly faded boards, fading to spine and no bumping to corners. 465pp. The book begins with a description of the unique features of pre-industrial society, followed by an account of the social process of industrialization throuth the Industrial Revolution and its effects upon living standards, family life and the growth of the towns and a modern class society. Near Fine.

Keywords: Social History, England, Industrial Revolution, Victorian, 0710072570


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