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Barbara Hahn - Technology in the Industrial Revolution, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Technology in the Industrial Revolution

Av Barbara Hahn

Del i serien New Approaches to the History of Science and Medicine

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Technological change is about more than inventions. This concise history of the Industrial Revolution places the eighteenth-century British Industrial Revolution in global context, locating its causes in government protection, global competition, and colonialism. Inventions from spinning jennies to steam engines came to define an age that culminated in the acceleration of the fashion cycle, the intensification in demand and supply of raw materials and the rise of a plantation system that would reconfigure world history in favour of British (and European) global domination. In this accessible analysis of the classic case of rapid and revolutionary technological change, Barbara Hahn takes readers from the north of England to slavery, cotton plantations, the Anglo-Indian trade and beyond - placing technological change at the centre of world history.
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Barbara Hahn is a prize-winning author in business history and the history of technology. Her publications include Plantation Kingdom: The South and Its Global Commodities (2016), which she co-authored. She is Associate Professor of History at Texas Tech University and was the associate editor of the journal Technology and Culture.

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'Barbara Hahn boldly reframes the story of the profound economic, social, and cultural changes that transformed northern England between the 1760s and the 1840s. By emphasizing networks and systems rather than men and machines she forces us to see the world of the Industrial Revolution anew. We are all in Hahn's debt for this splendid new study.' Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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