Harvie Chrisopher (1 results)

Pictorial Coated Cardstock. Condition: TZXX. No Jacket. 4th Printing (with Corrections) 1981. This is a compilation of descriptions about the progress and effects of Industrial Revolution on the British landscape and society. "The book was conceived as a collection of readings to be used in association with the correspondence material and radio and television broadcasts of the last eight units of the foundation course in the humanities at The Open University." [Introduction] Subjects include The Mechanical Age; The Face of the Country; Machinery; Enterprise; Communications; Transition; Responses; Prophets and Skeptics; Religion and Moralist Philosophy; The Great Exhibition; Art and Design; John Ruskin; William Morris; Looking Forward; and Literature. Representative authors include Carlyle (The Mechanical Age), Cobbett (A Farm Sale near Reigate), and Arnold (The Crisis in Belief). 460 pages, with prefatory matter, contemporary illustrations, Notes on the Editors, and Index. Covers are clean and sound; text is strong, and clean excepting 2 ink checkmarks on Contents page, and browning to mid-margins.…