Volume 27, Number 5 · April 3, 1980
Publick Benefits and Private Vices
By E.J. Hobsbawm
Paternalism in Early Victorian England
by David Roberts
Rutgers University Press, 337 pp., $22.50
Barclay Fox's Journal
edited by R. L. Brett
Rowman and Littlefield, 426 pp., $23.50
Aristocracy and the People: Britain 1815-1865
by Norman Gash
Harvard University Press (New History of England series), 384 pp., $20.00
Iron Bridge to Crystal Palace: Impact and Images of the Industrial Revolution
by Asa Briggs
Thames and Hudson, 208 pp., $16.95
Only seven or eight generations—a short span as human history goes—separate us from the start of the first industrial revolution. The first iron bridge in the world celebrated its bicentennial in 1979. It is natural that historians should turn their attention to the first phase of the first industrial society, from which we are all in various ways descended: early nineteenth-century Britain.
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