Industrial Revolution

Social and Political Impact of the First Phase of the Industrial Revolution


From 1800 to 1850, the population of England and Wales doubled, from nine million to eighteen million. During the same period, the proportion of people living in cities rose from 10 percent to 50 percent. Put together, the...

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