Engineering Empires: A Cultural History of Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0333772784
ISBN13:9780333772782
Release Date:December 2004
Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan
Length:351 Pages
Weight:1.24 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.4" x 8.5"
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