Technology in the Industrial Revolution

By:

Barbara Hahn

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Paperback / softback

Series:

New Approaches to the History of Science and Medicine

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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.

Author Biography:

Barbara Hahn is a prize-winning author in business history and the history of technology. Her publications include Plantation Kingdom: The South and Its Global Commodities (2016), which she co-authored. She is Associate Professor of History at Texas Tech University and was the associate editor of the journal Technology and Culture.

Release date Australia

January 23rd, 2020

Author

Barbara Hahn

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises; 1 Maps; 19 Halftones, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white

Pages

236

Series

New Approaches to the History of Science and Medicine

Dimensions

152x227x12

ISBN-13

9781316637463

Product ID

31123483

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