'There is much here that provokes and much that persuades.' David Eastwood, The Times Literary Supplement
'I think this is a fine book ... Richard Price has discharged his task with quite extraordinary scholarship. the book deserves to be treated as a scholarly synthesis and its arguments should be engaged by scholars in the field. The book's ambition not to be a textbook is amply fulfilled. But it is also a goldmine for the tribe of plunderers we commonly call undergraduates.' International Review of Social History
"...historians and informed students will find in this work a suggestive and persuasive case for reperiodizing modern British history." Ian Duffy, History
"...the book has particular merit in making us think about the issue of periodization in social history is undoubted and on this score alone it is to be welcomed as an important contribution to the litereature...the book will undoubtedly help students to think about periodization in history rather than simply accepting the time periods with which we all too readily present them." Labor History
"The first paragraph in this book concludes by announcing that "it follows in the great tradition of works such as Asa Briggs's Age of Improvement, and Harold Perkin's Origins of Modern English Society, and will be of enormous interest to all students and scholars of the period." These are not slight claims, and one might well wonder whether the results will justify them. They do...No relatively short review (and probably not one a great deal longer) can do justice to this book...It is not a cliche to say that any student or scholar of the period must read this book." Albion
"This is a distinctly interesting work--"not a textbook," but "a general history"--in which Price advances "an argument about a particular phase of society's history." Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"it will appeal to academic historians and will be valued by them...the book will undoubtedly help students to think about periodization in history rather than simply accepting the time periods with which we all to readily present them." Labor History
"Richard Price is the first historian of Britain to make a systematic case for viewing the eighteenth century and the first eight decades of the nineteenth as a distinct historical juncture that ought to be more for continuity than for change...laudably ambitious and often imaginative argument, and it reflects an impressive command of a ver rich and deep secondary literature." Jrnl Of Modern History
"...Prie has produced a brilliant work of synthesis and analysis that should be read by everyone interested in modern British history or in the history of the industrial revolution. Price writes with verve and clarity, and demonstrates an astonishing mastery of the historical literature. It is a challenging, thought-provoking, and important work. " Business History Review
