Peter M. Jones

Industrial Enlightenment

Science, technology and culture in Birmingham and the West Midlands 1760-1820

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book uses a case study to explore the contribution which scientific knowledge made to the growth trajectory of England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The aim is not to re-tell the story of the Industrial Revolution, but to reconstruct its preliminary stage which is here labelled the Industrial Enlightenment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9780719089121
• ISBN-10: 0719089123
• Artikelnr.: 36268623

Autorenporträt

Peter Jones is Professor of French History at the University of Birmingham

Inhaltsangabe

1. The eighteenth-century knowledge economy 2. Birmingham and the West
Midlands 3. The dissemination and validation of experimental Science in the
marketplace 4. The science and technology interface 5. Industry,
enlightenment and dissent 6. The Republic of Letters in disarray 7.
Conclusion Bibliography Index