Engineering Empires: A Cultural History of Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain

by Ben Marsden, Crosbie Smith, C. Smith

Book Overview

Engineers are empire-builders. James Watt, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Robert Stephenson and a host of lesser known figures worked to build and expand personal and business empires of material technology founded on and sustained by durable networks of trust and expertise. In so doing these engineers and their heirs also became active agents of political and economic empire. Indeed, steamships, railways and electric telegraph systems increasingly complemented...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333772784
• ISBN13: 9780333772782
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 351 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.5"