Making an Industrial Revolution

Skill, Knowledge, Community and Innovation

Gillian Cookson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2025 | Paperback original
The Boydell Press (Verlag)
978-1-83765-141-2 (ISBN)

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A new look at Britain's industrial revolution showing how communities of shared skill, knowledge and experience drove industrial innovation.

Making an Industrial Revolution presents a fresh perspective on British industrialization. Advances in technology, commerce and science played their part, but - as this book argues - above all it was communities of shared skill, knowledge and experience which drove industrial innovation in the eighteenth century.

Connections and relationships in key sectors - iron, textiles and engineering - produced transformative forces that revolutionized industrial life in Britain. Including new insights into Scotland's unique contribution, the book explores industrial change across the country, highlighting the significance of inter-regional and overseas migration and connection. It considers how social status enabled or limited individuals. It questions how exactly eighteenth-century science linked with emerging industrial technologies; and the importance of science, relative to skills and experience, in shaping innovation.

GILLIAN COOKSON is an industrial historian. She is the author of The Age of Machinery: Engineering the Industrial Revolution, 1770-1850, published by The Boydell Press in 2018.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.1.2025
Zusatzinfo	1 Maps
Verlagsort	Woodbridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	666 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-83765-141-8 / 1837651418
ISBN-13	978-1-83765-141-2 / 9781837651412
Zustand	Neuware