Before the Luddites: Custom, Community and Machinery in the English Woollen Industry, 1776-1809

by Adrian Randall

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Before the Luddites is a study of the early Industrial Revolution in the English woollen cloth-making industry in the West of England and Yorkshire which concentrates upon the social background of and response to change. It is particularly concerned to explain the reasons for and the effect of Luddism. This book argues that resistance to machinery had a long history before the Luddite disturbances of 1811-12 and that this response to change sprang...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521893348

ISBN13:9780521893343

Release Date:January 2004

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:340 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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