The subject of these lectures is the Industrial and Agrarian Revolution
at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries.
Including chapters on England in 1760, the mercantile system and Adam
Smith, the growth of pauperism and the future of the working classes.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s
and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are
republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality,
modern editions, using the original text and artwork.