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About this book
A historian examines the evolution of dissenting thought and how it shaped the transformation of England from a rural to an urban, industrialized society.
The foundations for the Industrial Revolution were in place from the late Middle Ages, when the early development of manufacturing processes and changes in the structure of rural communities began to provide opportunities for economic and social advancement. Successive waves of Huguenot migrants and the influence of Northern European religious ideology also played an important role in this process. The Civil Wars would provide a catalyst for the dissemination of new ideas and help shape the emergence of a new English Protestantism and divergent dissident sects. The persecution that followed strengthened the Nonconformist cause, and for the early Quakers it intensified their unity and resilienceāqualities that would prove to be invaluable for business.
The book proceeds to explore how in the years following the Restoration, Nonconformist ideas fueled enlightened thought, creating an environment for enterprise but also a desire for more radical change, how reformers seized on the plight of a working poor alienated by innovation and frustrated by false promisesāand how the vision which was at first the spark for innovation would ignite revolution.
The foundations for the Industrial Revolution were in place from the late Middle Ages, when the early development of manufacturing processes and changes in the structure of rural communities began to provide opportunities for economic and social advancement. Successive waves of Huguenot migrants and the influence of Northern European religious ideology also played an important role in this process. The Civil Wars would provide a catalyst for the dissemination of new ideas and help shape the emergence of a new English Protestantism and divergent dissident sects. The persecution that followed strengthened the Nonconformist cause, and for the early Quakers it intensified their unity and resilienceāqualities that would prove to be invaluable for business.
The book proceeds to explore how in the years following the Restoration, Nonconformist ideas fueled enlightened thought, creating an environment for enterprise but also a desire for more radical change, how reformers seized on the plight of a working poor alienated by innovation and frustrated by false promisesāand how the vision which was at first the spark for innovation would ignite revolution.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Foundations for Change
- Chapter 2 The Sowing of Seeds
- Chapter 3 Rebellion
- Chapter 4 Escape from the Continent
- Chapter 5 The Routes of Change
- Chapter 6 A Country Divided
- Chapter 7 An Inward Light Emerges
- Chapter 8 Our Friends in the North
- Chapter 9 The Communication Web
- Chapter 10 The Lewes Connection
- Chapter 11 To the Moon and Back
- Chapter 12 The Birth of a Radical
- Chapter 13 Revolution
- Chapter 14 Aux Armes, Citoyens!
- Chapter 15 From Sheffield to America
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Plate section