Engineering Empires A Cultural History of Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Description
Engineers are empire-builders. Watt, Brunel, and others worked to build and expand personal and business empires of material technology and in so doing these engineers also became active agents of political and economic empire. This book provides a fascinating exploration of the cultural construction of the large-scale technologies of empire.
Keywords
ScienceHistorySocial HistoryEuropeGreat BritainWorldModernTechnology & Engineering
2004Book
Author(s)Ben Marsden
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780333772782
LanguageEnglish
