The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Making of the Modern World 1776-1914 by Gavin Weightman

The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Making of the Modern World 1776-1914

Gavin Weightman

422 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction business economics history adventurous informative slow-paced

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In this vivid, sweeping history of the industrial revolution, Gavin Weightman shows how, in less than one hundred and fifty years, an unlikely band of scientists, spies, entrepreneurs, and political refugees took a world made of wood, powered by a...

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