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Technology in the Industrial Revolution

Technology in the Industrial Revolution

Paperback

Series: New Approaches to the History of Science and Medicine

Business GeneralTechnology & Engineering

ISBN10: 1316637468
ISBN13: 9781316637463
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 23 2020
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.20 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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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