Mike, Leeder,

Measures for Measure

Geology and the Industrial Revolution

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An illustrated explanation of the geological background to the first Industrial Revolution that originated in eighteenth-century Britain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liverpool University Press
• First Edition, New edition
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 168mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 940g
• ISBN-13: 9781780460819
• ISBN-10: 1780460813
• Artikelnr.: 55021424

Autorenporträt

Mike Leeder is Emeritus Professor at UEA Norwich and a former Head of Earth Sciences at Leeds University. Outside his geological comfort zone he has, since his schooldays, taken a keen interest in history, literature and politics, all topics covered in the present book. He is, with Joy Lawlor, co-author of GeoBritannica, the story of British geological and landscape evolution and the related creativity of its peoples since Neolithic times.