This is the second of two anthologies designed to accompany the Open University course "From Enlightenment to Romanticism," an interdisciplinary exploration of the changes and transitions in European culture between 1780 and 1830. The collection of extracts in this anthology provides primary and secondary sources on changing landscapes, new forms of knowledge, new conceptions of art and the artist and the exotic and Oriential. Each selection is accompanied by a detailed introduction explaining the context and significance of the sources. Extracts in the anthology stimulate questions rather...

New Lanark, the former cotton spinning village, is known as the pioneer of technological and social change in the Industrial Revolution. This new edition traces the community's history from its conception as a centre of mass production in 1785 to its present day standing as a World Heritage Site and beyond. Beginning with New Lanark's early development under its creator, the banker and textile entrepreneur, David Dale (1739-1806), this classic text looks at the social conditions of the mainly migrant workforce recruited to the village, and especially at the use of child labour from the...