Engineering Empires [electronic resource] : A Cultural History of Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain / by B. Marsden, C. Smith.

Marsden, B.
Engineering Empires
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9780230504127 978-0-230-50412-7
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/3215
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2005.
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XI, 351 p. 17 illus. online resource.
Özet, vb.
Engineers are empire-builders. Watt, Brunel, and others worked to build and expand personal and business empires of material technology and in so doing these engineers also became active agents of political and economic empire. This book provides a fascinating exploration of the cultural construction of the large-scale technologies of empire.
Konu
Science __ History.
Civilization __ History.
Great Britain __ History.
World history.
History, Modern.
Technology.
History.
History of Science.
Cultural History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Modern History.
History of Technology.
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