Engineering Empires: A Cultural History of Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain

by Ben Marsden, Crosbie Smith, C. Smith

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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.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0230507042

ISBN13:9780230507043

Release Date:January 2007

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:351 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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Engineering History Technology

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