ISBN:

• 9780152005146
• 0152005145

Edition: First U.S. edition.

Description: 64 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.

Target Audience Note: Grades 4-7.

Notes:

• "Gulliver books."
• Includes index.

Contents:

• The old order
• The domestic system
• Trade and growth
• Inventions and innovation
• The first factories
• Coal
• The first railways
• Making machines
• The revolution spreads
• Factory work
• Life in the cities
• The railways expand
• Iron and steel
• Bridges, tunnels, and towers
• The money men
• The second revolution
• Reaching for new markets
• The scramble for empire
• Dreams and realities
• Wealth
• Philanthropy
• Unions, politics, and laws
• Education
• Medicine and health
• Women at work
• Mass appeal
• Big business
• Into the future
• How do we know?

LCCN: 93002554

Control Number: 50457

Series:

• Living history
• Living history (San Diego, Calif.)

Subjects:

• Industrial revolution -- Europe -- Juvenile literature.
• Industrial revolution -- Juvenile literature.
• Industrial revolution -- United States -- Juvenile literature.

Other Authors: Clare, John D., 1952-