COMPRESSED MEAT OF OLD ENGLAND
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 17/6U1830. By T. S. Ashton. Home University Library. Oxford University Press | through Geoffrey Cumberlege. English price, 5/ROFESSOR ASHTON puts a good deal of meat into a dish of 160 pages. He traces the development of industries, transport, labour relationship, monetary technique and much else, in compressed paragraphs or episodes. For a book of this nature it is the only treatment, and it is adequately done. He is no Trevelyan. The facts are there, to be found if you want them; they are not clothed in the light which illuminates anything of which Trevelyan writes. The close connection between Dissent and the development of industry is well known. Proféssor Ashton accounts for it chiefly by saying that most Non-Con-formists. came from the better educated section of the middle classes. He is persuasive, but a.man’s mind and spirit do not necessarily burn brightly because he happens, to come from an educated section of the community. The fire has to come from within. | — --. .
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 512, 14 April 1949, Page 12
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171COMPRESSED MEAT OF OLD ENGLAND New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 512, 14 April 1949, Page 12
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