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Cookson

Making an Industrial Revolution

Skill, Knowledge, Community and Innovation

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-83765-141-2
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
Erscheinungstermin: 14.01.2025
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A new look at Britain's industrial revolution showing how communities of shared skill, knowledge and experience drove industrial innovation.

Making an Industrial Revolution presents 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.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781837651412
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-83765-141-2
  • Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
  • Erscheinungstermin: 14.01.2025
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2025
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Print PDF
  • Gewicht: 412 g
  • Seiten: 264
  • Format (B x H x T): 168 x 236 x 24 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

GILLIAN COOKSON is an industrial historian. She is the author of The Age of Machinery: Engineering the Industrial Revolution, 1770-1850, published by The Boydell Press in 2018.