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

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

Paperback

Technology & EngineeringBritish History

ISBN10: 0230507042
ISBN13: 9780230507043
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Dec 7 2004
Pages: 351
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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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