Volume 17, Number 1 · July 22, 1971
How the Poor Live
By Noel Annan
The Unknown Mayhew
by Eileen Yeo, by E.P. Thompson
Pantheon, 489 pp., $12.95
The historiography of the industrial revolution in Britain is worth a book in itself. At the beginning of the twentieth century historians at last became aware that the most striking of all the revolutions since 1789 was not any of the willed political revolutions but a process beyond human control which was beginning to transform life and to produce a totally new set of relationships between human beings.
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