Industry and Innovation

Cover Page -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Half Title Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Editors' Preface -- W.H. Chaloner: Memorial Address -- Memoir of a Partnership -- W.H. Chaloner's Bibliographical Introductions -- I The Wilkinsons and the Iron Trade -- 1. The Brothers John and William Wilkinson and their Relations with French Metallurgy, 1775-1786 -- 2. The Agricultural Activities of John Wilkinson, Ironmaster -- 3. Dr. Joseph Priestley, John Wilkinson and the French Revolution, 1789-1802 -- II Entrepreneurs and Innovation in British Industry -- 4. Hazards of Trade with France in Time of War, 1776-1783 -- 5. New Light on Richard Roberts, Textile Engineer (1789-1864) -- 6. John Galloway (1804-1894), Engineer of Manchester, and his 'Reminiscences' -- 7. Was there a Decline of the Industrial Spirit in Britain 1850-1939? -- III Manchester as a Regional Metropolis -- 8. Robert Owen, Peter Drinkwater and the Early Factory System in Manchester, 1788-1800 -- 9. Manchester in the Latter Half of the Eighteenth Century -- 10. The Birth of Modern Manchester -- 11. Manchester's Historian. A Memoir of Arthur Redford, 1896-1961 -- IV Social Aspects of the Industrial Revolution -- 12. Working-Class History and Middle-Class Historians: The Webbs, the Hammonds and the Coles -- 13. 1989: 1688 or 1789? -- 14. The Skilled Artisans during the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850 -- 15. The Hungry Forties -- 16. Mrs Trollope and the Early Factory System -- 17. Trends in Fish Consumption -- V Monetary Standards and Imperial Trade -- 18. Currency Problems of the British Empire, 1814-1914 -- VI Select Bibliography of Professor Chaloner's Writings -- Index