The Useful Knowledge of William Hutton: Culture and Industry in Eighteenth-Century BirminghamThe Useful Knowledge of William Hutton shows the rapid rise of a self taught workman and the growing prominence of the city of Birmingham during the two major events of the eighteenth century the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment. Hutton achieved wealth, land, status, and literary fame, but later became a victim of violent riots. The book boldly claims that an understanding of the Industrial Revolution requires engagement with the figure of