E．A．里格利为牛津大学万灵学院的高级研究员。英国人口史和工业革命史研究的著名学者，曾任英国学术院院长。

The Industrial Revolution brought into being a distinct world, a world of greater affluence, longevity and mobility, an urban rather than a rural world. But the great surge of economic growth was balanced against severe constraints on the opportunities for expansion, revealing an intriguing paradox. This book, published to considerable critical acclaim, explores the paradox and...(展开全部)

Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm CH, FBA, (born June 9, 1917) is a British Marxist historian and author. 艾瑞克·约翰·欧内斯特·霍布斯邦（Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm，1917年6月9日－）英国历史学家及作家。 霍布斯邦于1917年出生于埃及亚力山卓，并成长于维也纳和柏林 他的父母Leopold Percy Hobsbaum和Nelly Grün皆为犹太人。一个行政上的疏失使他的姓从Hobsbaum变成Hobsbawm，and the name stuck.虽然他的家庭居住于德语系国家，但他的双亲对霍布斯邦及他的妹妹萳西使用的是英语。 他的父亲于1929年逝世后，他开始担任互惠生（au pair）和英文家教。在他十四岁时随着她母亲的去世，...(展开全部)

The Industrial Revolution brought momentous change throughout the country and shaped a significant industrial force in the Tees Valley. How this transformation was achieved is revealed as the towns an

Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows that in Britain wages were high and capital and energy cheap in comparison t...(展开全部)

Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows that in Britain wages were high and capital and energy cheap in comparison t...(展开全部)

Japan, like the rest of the world, has undergone a large number of changes in recent times. The impact of the end of the Cold War has combined with a worldwide recession to create a fluid situation in which long-held assumptions about politics and policies no longer hold. A short history of modern Japan, this book has been brought up to date by Marius Jansen, a distinguished in...(展开全部)

If a country wants to remain economically vibrant, it needs to manufacture things. In recent years, however, many nations have become obsessed with making money out of selling services, leaving the real business of manufacturing to others. Makers is about how all that is being reversed. Over the past ten years, the internet has democratised publishing, broadcasting and communic...(展开全部)

Wired magazine editor and bestselling author Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop. In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and creation, the collective potential of a million garage tinkerers and enthusiasts is abou...(展开全部)