T. S. Ashton; with a new preface and bibliography by Pat Hudson (1997). The industrial Revolution, 1760-1830. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 139 p. [orig. pub. 1948]). Industrial revolution--Great Britain; Great Britain--Economic conditions--1760-1860.

Maxine Berg (1994). The Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820: Industry, Innovation and Work in Britain. (New York, NY: Routledge, 304 p. [2nd ed.]). Manufacturing industries--Great Britain--History--18th century.  

Asa Briggs (2000). The Age of Improvement, 1783-1867. (New York, NY: Longmans, Green & Company, 550 p.). Great Britain--History--George III, 1760-1820; Great Britain--History--19th century; England--Civilization--19th century.

Valerio Castronovo (1978). La Rivoluzione Industriale. (Firenze, IT: Sansoni, 152 p.). Industrial revolution--Great Britain; Industrial revolution--Great Britain--History--Sources.

Gregory Clark (2007). A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 420 p.). Professor of Economics (University of California, Davis). Economic history. Culture, not exploitation, geography, or resources, explains wealth, poverty of nations and Industrial Revolution in England in 1800; stable political, legal, economic institutions led to deep cultural changes, encouraged people to abandon hunter-gatherer instincts (violence, impatience, economy of effort), to adopt economic habits (hard work, rationality, education). 

James C. Cobb (1982). The Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936-1980. (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 293 p.). Industrial promotion--Southern States; Southern States--Economic conditions--1918-.

--- (1984). Industrialization and Southern Society, 1877-1984. (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 185 p.). Industrialization--Southern States--History; Industrial promotion--Southern States--History.

D. C. Coleman (1992). Myth, History, and the Industrial Revolution. (London, UK: Hambledon Press, 225 p.). Industrial revolution--Great Britain; Businesspeople--Great Britain--History; Great Britain--Economic conditions--1760-1860; Great Britain--Historiography.

N. F. R. Crafts (1985). British Economic Growth During the Industrial Revolution. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 193 p.). Industrial revolution--Great Britain; Great Britain--Economic conditions--1760-1860. British economic growth was relatively slow during much of so-called industrial "revolution"; how new growth estimates hold vital implications for  understanding of productivity, living standards, structural change, international trade in 18th- and 19th-century Britain.

Alan Dawley; with a New Preface (2000). Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 301 p. [orig. pub. 1975]). Professor History (The College of New Jersey). Shoemakers--Massachusetts--Lynn; Social classes--Massachusetts--Lynn; Shoe industry--Massachusetts--Lynn.

Phyllis Deane (1979). The First Industrial Revolution. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 318 p. [2nd ed.]). Industrial revolution--Great Britain; Great Britain--Economic conditions--1760-1860.

S. R. Epstein (2000). Freedom and Growth: Markets and States in Pre-Modern Europe, 1300-1750. (New York, NY: Routledge, 223 p.). Professor of Economic History (London School of Economics). Liberty--History; State, The--History; Europe--Economic conditions; Europe--Politics and government. Pre-Industrial Revolution. Economics of growth must incorporate  political economy of growth; insights on political conditions for pre-industrial economic growth, nature and historical evolution of an efficient and modern state (explicit anti-Ricardian view).

Eric J. Evans (1983). The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain, 1783-1870. (New York, NY: Longman, 457 p.). Industrial revolution--Great Britain; Great Britain--Economic conditions--1760-1860; Great Britain--Economic conditions--19th century; Great Britain--Politics and government--1760-1820; Great Britain--Politics and government--19th century.

Paul G. Faler (1981). Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1780-1860. (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 267 p.). Shoemakers--Massachusetts--Lynn--History; Footwear industry--Massachusetts--Lynn--History; Working class--Massachusetts--Lynn--History; Lynn (Mass.)--Social conditions.

Laura L. Frader (2005). The Industrial Revolution: A History in Documents. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Industrial revolution--Sources; Industrialization--History.

Pierre Gervais (2004). Les Origines de la Revolution Industrielle aux Etats-Unis: Entre Economie Marchande et Capitalisme Industriel, 1800-1850. (Paris, FR: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 347 p.). Industrial revolution--United States--History--19th century; Industrialization--United States--History--19th century; United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.

Mrs. Constance (McLaughlin) Green (1939). Holyoke, Massachusetts; A Case History of the Industrial Revolution in America. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 425 p.). Industries--Massachusetts--Holyoke; Holyoke (Mass.)--History.

Andre Guillerme (2007). La Naissance de L'industrie à Paris: Entre Sueurs et Vapeurs, 1780-1830. (Seyssel, France : Champ Vallon: Champ Vallon, 432 p.). Industrialization -- France -- Paris -- History; Industries -- France -- Paris -- History; Paris Industrial History 18th-19th Century.

O. W. Henderson (1972). Britain and Industrial Europe, 1750-1870: Studies in British Influence on the Industrial Revolution in Western Europe. (Leicester, UK: Leicester University Press, 267 p. [3rd ed.]). Industrial revolution--Europe; Industrial revolution--Great Britain; Great Britain--Foreign economic relations--Europe.

Eds. Kevin Hillstrom and Laurie Collier Hillstrom (2005-2007). The Industrial Revolution in America. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 9 vols.). Industrial revolution -- United States; Industries -- United States -- History; industrialization -- United States -- History. Incomplete contents : v. 1. Iron and steel -- v. 2. Railroads -- v. 3. Steam shipping -- [4] Textiles -- [5] Mining and petroleum -- [6] Automobiles -- [7] Communications -- [8] Agriculture and meatpacking -- [9] Overview/comparison.

--- (2006).The Industrial Revolution in America: Automobiles, Mining and Petroleum, Textiles. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. Industrial revolution--United States; Industries--United States--History; Industrialization--United States--History. Industry that started United States down road toward economic revolution (textiles), industry that represented revolution's ultimate destination (automobiles), industry that fueled journey by turning nation's natural resources into sources of wealth and power.  

Brooke Hindle and Steven Lubar (1986). Engines of Change: The American Industrial Revolution, 1790-1860. (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 309 p.). Industrial revolution--United States; Technological innovations--Economic aspects--United States--History; United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.

E. J. Hobsbawn; revised and updated with Chris Wrigley (1999). Industry and Empire: From 1750 to the Present Day. (New York, NY: New Press, 411 p.). Industrial revolution--Great Britain--History; Industries--Great Britain--History; Great Britain--Economic conditions.

Katrina Honeyman (1983). Origins of Enterprise: Business Leadership in the Industrial Revolution. (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 204 p.). Businesspeople--Great Britain--History; Industrial revolution--Great Britain; Entrepreneurship--History; Social mobility--Great Britain--History.

Jeff Horn (2006). The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 383 p.). Associate Professor (Manhattan College). Industrialization--France--History--18th century; Industrialization--France--History--19th century; Industrialization--England--History--18th century; Industrialization--England--History--19th century. French industrialization was not failed imitation of laissez-faire British model but product of distinctive industrial policy that led, over long term, to prosperity comparable to Britain's.

--- (2007). The Industrial Revolution: Milestones in Business History. (Westport, CT,: Greenwood Press, 167 p.). Associate Professor of History (Manhattan College). Industrial revolution--Great Britain--History; Industrialization--Great Britain--History; Industrial revolution--Europe; Great Britain--Economic conditions--History; Europe--Economic conditions--History. How Industrial Revolution played out in Europe, United States, rest of the world; role of government in promoting, regulating commerce; important distinctions between original Industrial Revolution (1760-1850), second Industrial Revolution (approximately 1850 to the early 20th century).

Pat Hudson (1992). The Industrial Revolution. (New York, NY: E. Arnold, 244 p.). Professor of Economics and Social History (University of Liverpool). Industrial revolution--Great Britain--Historiography; Industrial policy--Great Britain--Historiography.; Great Britain--Economic conditions--Historiography; Great Britain--Social conditions--Historiography.

Ed. and with an Introduction by Gary J. Kornblith (1998). The Industrial Revolution in America. (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 206 p.). Industrial revolution--United States--History; Industrialization--United States--History; United States--Economic conditions; United States--Social conditions.

David S. Landes (1969). The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present. (London, UK: Cambridge University Press, 566 p.). Industries--Europe--History; Europe--Economic conditions. 

Walter Licht (1995). Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 219 p.). Industrialization--United States--History--19th century; Capitalism--United States--History--19th century; Industrial policy--United States--History--19th century; United States--Economic conditions--To 1865--Regional disparities; United States--Economic conditions--1865-1918--Regional disparities.

Christine MacLeod (1988). Inventing the Industrial Revolution: The English Patent System, 1660-1800. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 302 p.). Patents--Great Britain--History--17th century; Patents--Great Britain--History--18th century. Development of English patent system, its relationship with technical change; evolved from instrument of royal patronage into one of commercial competition among inventors and manufacturers of Industrial Revolution.

Paul Mantoux; foreword (1983) by John Kenneth Galbraith; foreword(1961) by T.S. Ashton (1983). The Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century: An Outline of the Beginnings of the Modern Factory System in England. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 528 p. [orig. pub. 1928]). Industrial revolution--England; England--Economic conditions--18th century.

Christine MacLeod (2008). Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750-1914. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 480 p.). Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the School of Humanities (University of Bristol). Industrial revolution -- Britain; inventions; Technological innovations--Economic aspects--Britain--History. Why inventors rose to heroic stature, popular acclaim in Victorian Britain (numerous monuments, biographies, honors); legacy for present-day ideas about invention, inventors, history of industrial revolution remains highly influential.

Ed. Joel Mokyr (1993). The British Industrial Revolution: An Economic Perspective. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 362 p.). Industrial revolution--Great Britain; Great Britain--Economic conditions--1760-1860. Notes: A collection of 4 new or updated essays and the editor’s introduction, a survey and evaluation of contemporary research.

A. D. Morrison-Low (2007). Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 408 p.). Curator of the History of Science at National Museums of Scotland.  Scientific apparatus and instruments industry--England--History. Structure, profitability, economic significance of 18th, early 19th- century British instrument-making trade.

Jon Nichol (1981). Developing Britain 1740-1900: The Agrarian, Transport and Industrial Revolutions. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 64 p.). Great Britain -- Industries; Great Britain Industrial development 1740-1900.

David Oldroyd (2007). Estates, Enterprise and Investment at the Dawn of the Industrial Revolution: Estate Management and Accounting in the North-East of England, c.1700-1780. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 217 p.). Administration of estates--England, North East--History--18th century; Industries--England, North East--History--18th century; Saving and investment--England, North East--History--18th century; England, North East--Economic conditions. Role of accountants during the industrial revolution; accounting was essential, extremely adaptable tool promoting economic efficiency;  extraordinary sensitivity to unit costs; accounting methods used to plan future investments; accounting information was regularly used both as a planning tool for future investments and as a tool to maximize profits.

Sidney Pollard (1965). The Genesis of Modern Management; a Study of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 328 p.). Great Britain--Economic conditions; Great Britain--Industries. Early industrial accounting exhibited marked confusion between capital and revenues; suggests that early industrialists more concerned with calculating, extracting interest on their investments rather than maximizing their rate of return;  early entrepreneurs apparently lacked true profit motive possessed by modern capitalists.

--- (1981). Peaceful Conquest: The Industrialization of Europe, 1760-1970. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 451 p.). Industries -- Europe -- History.

Jonathan Prude (1983). The Coming of Industrial Order: Town and Factory Life in Rural Massachusetts, 1810-1860. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 364 p.). Industries--Massachusetts--History--19th century.

Eric Richards; Foreword by S. G. Checkland (1973). The Leviathan of Wealth: The Sutherland Fortune in the Industrial Revolution. (London, UK: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 316 p.). Sutherland family; Transportation--Great Britain--History; Great Britain--Commerce--History.

Ed. Christine Rider (2008). Encyclopedia of the Age of the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1920. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2 Vols.). Professor Emerita (St. John's University in New York). Industrial revolution--Encyclopedias; Technological innovations--Encyclopedias; Economic history--Encyclopedias. Over 150 entries on all aspects of historical transformation of industry and society; describes major people, events, inventions that defined Industrial Revolution in Britain, United States, elsewhere; 24 primary documents, Chronology, bibliography, extensive Introduction, illustrations, detailed subject index.

Eds. Christine Rider and Micheal Thompson (2000). The Industrial Revolution in Comparative Perspective. (Malabar, FL: Krieger Publishing, 268 p.). Industrial revolution; Economic history. Significance of Industrial Revolution, impact of New World trade, scientific advances, new technology, financial developments on industrialization; possible impact of literacy, population policies, sense of nationhood on industrial change; results of that change.

Peter N. Stearns (2007). The Industrial Revolution in World History. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 260 p. [3rd ed.]). Industrial revolution; Economic history.

Eds. Mikulas Teich and Roy Porter (1996). The Industrial Revolution in National Context : Europe and the USA. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 413 p.). Economic history--1750-1918; Industrial revolution--Europe; Industrial revolution--United States.

Eds. Peter Temin (2000). Engines of Enterprise: An Economic History of New England. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 328 p.). Elisha Gray II Professor of Economics (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). New England -- Economic conditions. New England led United States in  transformation from agrarian to industrial economy, reinvented in complex economy of information society. Transformation of New England's products and exports from cotton textiles and machine tools to such intangible goods as education and software.

Brinley Thomas (1993). The Industrial Revolution and the Atlantic Economy: Selected Essays. (New York, NY: Routledge, 260 p.). Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Economics (University of California, Berkeley). Industrial revolution--Great Britain; Energy development--Great Britain--History--18th century; Great Britain--Economic conditions--1760-1860. 

Arnold J. Toynbee (1956). The Industrial Revolution. (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 139 p. [orig. pub. 1884]). Economics--Great Britain--History; Labor and laboring classes--Great Britain.; Great Britain--Economic conditions.

Michael A. Vanns (2003). Witness to Change: A Record of the Industrial Revolution: The Elton Collection at the Ironbridge Gorge Museum. (Hersham, Surrey, UK: Ian Allan, 160 p.). Elton, Arthur--Art collections--Catalogs; Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust--Catalogs; Industrial revolution--Great Britain--Pictorial works; Industries in art--Catalogs; Industries in literature--Catalogs; Art and technology--Great Britain--Catalogs; Industrial museums--Great Britain--Coalbrookdale--Catalogs; Art, British--18th century--Catalogs; Art, British--19th century--Catalogs.

Peer Vries (2003). Via Peking back to Manchester: Britain, the Industrial Revolution, and China. (Leiden, Netherlands: Leiden, 108 p.). Professor of Global Economic History (University of Vienna). Great Britain; Great Britain. History. 18th century; Great Britain. History. 19th century; China. History. 18th century; China. History. 19th century.

Anthony F. C. Wallace (1978). Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution. (New York, NY: Knopf, 553 p.). Cotton trade--Pennsylvania--Rockdale--History; Industrial revolution--Pennsylvania--Rockdale; Rockdale (Pa.)--Social conditions; Rockdale (Pa.)--Religious life and customs.

Gavin Weightman (2003). What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us. (London, UK: BBC, 224 p.). Industrial revolution--Great Britain; Great Britain--History--19th century; Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.

--- (2007). The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Creation of the Modern World 1776-1914. (London, UK: Atlantic Books, 400 p.). Industrial revolution--Great Britain; Great Britain--History--19th century; Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century. Author describes the Industrial Revolution in full from 1776-1914; takes international perspective. From ironworks of rural England to  outbreak of First World War in 1914; accounts of achievements of giants (Trevithick, Stevenson, Watt, Wedgwood, Daimler, Bessemer, Edison) with lesser-known characters who carried industrialism from one nation to another.

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Industrial Revolution            http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html     Directory of online resources about the Industrial Revolution. Covers the era's developments in agriculture, steam and  electric power, and shipping, as well as the social effects of the changed economy. From the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.

Industrial Revolution; American Timeline to 1830     http://cottondays.atspace.com/timeline1.html

The Industrial Revolution -- Economic Factors and Contexts: Selected Bibliography http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:asz6PNzRGxgJ: www.victorianweb.org/technology/ir/ 1.html+economist+%22Thomas+Brinley%22&hl= en&ct=clnk&cd=12&gl=us                                                       George P. Landow, Shaw Professor of English and Digital Culture, National University of Singapore.