Engineering Empires: A Cultural History of Technology in Nineteenth-century Britain Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

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

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.Read More

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  • 0230507042
  • 9780230507043
  • Ben Marsden, Crosbie Smith
  • 30 November 2006
  • Palgrave Macmillan
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 256
  • New Ed
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