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Beard, Charles A. The Industrial Revolution. London: Swan, Sonnenschen &Co, 1901. Various reprints. Old-fashioned, standard classic.

Deane, Phyllis. The First Industrial Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Economic history, quantitative detail.

Glen, Robert. Urban Workers in the Early Industrial Revolution. London: Croom Helm, 1984. A study based on the Stockport, Greater Manchester area.

Hamerow, Theodore S. The Birth of a New Europe: State and Society in the Nineteenth Century. Chapel Hill, London: University of North Carolina Press, 1983. Excellent introduction to the period, authoritative, comprehensive.

Hobsbawm, E. L. The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848. London: Weidenfeld &Nicolson, 1975. Discusses social context in light of European events, particularly the French Revolution.

Hobsbawm, E. L. The Age of Capital, 1848-1875. London: Weidenfeld &Nicolson, 1975. Companion to above.

Hobsbawm, E. L. The Age of Empire, 1875-1914. London: Weidenfeld &Nicolson, 1975. Companion to above.

Kaelble, Hartmut. Industrialization and Social Inequality in 19th-century Europe. Leamington Spa: Berg, 1987. Translated by Bruce Little.

Landes, David S. The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present. London: Cambridge University Press, 1969. Less quantitative, more comprehensive.

Pollard, Sidney. Peaceful Conquest: The Industrialization of Europe, 176?-1970. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. On society.

Stearns, Peter N. The Impact of the Industrial Revolution: Protest and Alienation. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1972. On society, it gathers contemporary documents from France, Germany, and Britain, with a descriptive, unusual result.

Stearns, Peter N. The Industrial Revolution in World History. Oxford: Westview Press, 1993. Descriptive, comprehensive, three sections covering the period 1760-1990s.

Thompson, E. P. The Making of the English Working Class. London: Gollancz, 1963. Various reprints. The classic work on the subject.

Wrigley, E. Anthony. Continuity, Chance and Change: The Character of the Industrial Revolution in England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.