Engineering Empires: A Cultural History of Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (693 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0230507042 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 351 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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. Engineers are empire-builders. This book provides a fascinating exploration of the cultural construction of the large-scale technologies of empire.
Three Stars Interesting but not really my style.
He edited the British Journal for the History of Science from 1999 until 2004. Rankine.CROSBIE SMITH is Director of the Centre for History and Cultural Studies of Science at the University of Kent, UK. He has written extensively for learned journals and published Watt's Perfect Engine: Steam and the Age of Invention (Icon Books, 2002). . He is the co-author (with Norton Wise) of Energy and Empire: A Biographical
Hunt, University of Texas at Austin, USA'Smith and Marsden provide here a brilliant and concise analysis of the figure of the Nineteenth-Century British engineer and the social and technical significance of engineering's workThe book will be indispensable for historians, technologists and anyone interesed in the roots of the current relation between applied knowledge and the wider society.' - Professor Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge, UK'At last! This is the history of British technology we have been waiting for. Readers will be indebted to the co-authors for successfully framing these issues within a broad conspectus of Georgian and Victorian cultures, and doing so in a concise and freshly researched single volume.' - Graeme Gooday, University of Leeds, in Annals of Science'an excellent work highly recommended as a textbook for introductory c