The Age of Improvement, 1783-1867 (History of English)

With over 80,000 copies sold since its first appearance in 1959, The Age of Improvement has every right to claim the status of a classic of modern historical writing. Asa Briggs' masterly study of the period stresses the underlying unity of the age. In the background are the new economic powers based on the development of a coal and iron technology, in the foreground, the problems posed by the world's first industrial revolution.Asa Briggs is the author of 'The Age of Improvement, 1783-1867 (History of English)' with ISBN 9780582491007 and ISBN 0582491002.