Könyv Engineering Empires Crosbie Smith

Engineering Empires

A Cultural History of Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten alacsony példányszámban
Küldés 13-18 napon belül
45 223 Ft
Engineers are empire-builders. James Watt, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Robert Stephenson and a host of...

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Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2004
oldal
351
EAN
9780230507043
ISBN
0230507042
Enbook ID
04554651
Súly
462
Méretek
138 x 213 x 20

Teljes leírás

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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