Engineering Empires: A Cultural History of Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Ben Marsden, Crosbie Smith (auth.)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.
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Année:
2005
Edition:
1
Editeur::
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Langue:
english
Pages:
363
ISBN 10:
0230507042
ISBN 13:
9780230507043
Fichier:
PDF, 3.11 MB
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english, 2005