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The Industrial Revolution

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The age of manufactures 1700–1820. Industry and work in Britain. By BergM.. London: Routledge, 2nd edition, 1994. Pp. 337. £14.99 paper, £40 hardcover.
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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Roy Church
Roy Church
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University Of East Anglia
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The Historical Journal , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , June 1996, pp. 535 - 543
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1 Some authors use capital letters and/or quotation marks when using this term. For the sake of simplicity (for no judgement is intended) the term is employed here unadorned, except as part of a quotation.

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