Gillian Cookson: Making an Industrial Revolution, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Making an Industrial Revolution
- Skill, Knowledge, Community and Innovation
- Verlag:
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 01/2025
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781837651412
- Artikelnummer:
- 12176481
- Umfang:
- 264 Seiten
- Sonstiges:
- 14 b/w illus, 1 map
- Gewicht:
- 666 g
- Maße:
- 236 x 168 mm
- Stärke:
- 24 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 14.1.2025
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
A new look at Britain's industrial revolution showing how communities of shared skill, knowledge and experience drove industrial innovation.
Making an Industrial Revolutionpresents a fresh perspective on British industrialization. Advances in technology, commerce and science played their part, but - as this book argues - above all it was communities of shared skill, knowledge and experience which drove industrial innovation in the eighteenth century.
Connections and relationships in key sectors - iron, textiles and engineering - produced transformative forces that revolutionized industrial life in Britain. Including new insights into Scotland's unique contribution, the book explores industrial change across the country, highlighting the significance of inter-regional and overseas migration and connection. It considers how social status enabled or limited individuals. It questions how exactly eighteenth-century science linked with emerging industrial technologies; and the importance of science, relative to skills and experience, in shaping innovation.
