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14645991 No.14645991 [Reply] [Original]

What are the best books to gain a perspective on the Industrial Revolution?
What life was like before, during, and after.
Would be nice if it essenced of the speed of social change too.
>No Ted K, looking for boots on the ground during the time period

>> No.14646096
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Industrial Society and Its Future

>> No.14646123

It's one of the major points touched on by Sapiens, IIRC.

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>>14646096
By your meme, it would seem you are no fan of Ted K, yet you ironically give him as the rec.
Do have any literature you support on the Industrial Revolution, or are you informed completely by your second derivative contrarianism?

>>14646123
Thank you, but absolutely not.
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That said, I appreciate all input.

>> No.14646286

>>14645991
'The Great Transformation' by Karl Polanyi.

>> No.14646288

>>14646286
This, plus Engels.

>> No.14646371

>>14646286
>>14646288
thanks

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bump

>> No.14647569

>>14645991
The Conditions of the Working Class in England by Engels

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>>14645991
>What life was like before, during, and after.
This one hits all that

>> No.14648930

>>14645991
For fiction, try George Eliot. Most of her books are set in the period when Britain was beginning to industrialise, and often feature settings and people left behind by it. For example, The Mill on the Floss.

>> No.14649093

>>14647569
Based

>> No.14649720

>>14648930
perfect, thanks

>> No.14649816

>>14646286
retroactively refuted by Rothbard
https://mises.org/library/down-primitivism-thorough-critique-polanyi

>> No.14650710

energy and civilization by vaclav smil. lot more than the industrial revolution tho

>> No.14651846

>>14650710
best rec so far, buying this one. thank you, very much appreciated.