Kniha Engineering Empires Crosbie Smith

Engineering Empires

A Cultural History of Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Brožovaná
Vydavatel: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele v malém množství
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Engineers are empire-builders. James Watt, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Robert Stephenson and a host of...

Informace o knize

Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydáno
2004
Stránek
351
EAN
9780230507043
ISBN
0230507042
Enbook ID
04554651
Vydavatel
Hmotnost
462
Rozměry
138 x 213 x 20

Kompletní popis

Engineers are empire-builders. James Watt, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Robert Stephenson and a host of lesser known figures worked to build and expand personal and business empires of material technology founded on and sustained by durable networks of trust and expertise. In so doing these engineers and their heirs also became active agents of political and economic empire. Indeed, steamships, railways and electric telegraph systems increasingly complemented one another to form what one early twentieth-century telegraph engineer aptly termed "our most powerful weapon in the cause of Inter-Imperial Commerce". This book provides a fascinating exploration of the cultural construction of the large-scale technologies of empire.

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