Christine MacLeod

Heroes of Invention

Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750 1914

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An innovative study of why inventors rose to heroic stature and popular acclaim in Victorian Britain.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 476
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 766g
• ISBN-13: 9780521153829
• ISBN-10: 0521153824
• Artikelnr.: 31187752

Autorenporträt

Christine MacLeod is Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the School of Humanities, University of Bristol. She is the author of Inventing the Industrial Revolution: the English Patent System, 1660-1800 (1988).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of illustrations
1. Introduction: inventors and other heroes
2. The new Prometheus
3. The inventor's progress
4. The apotheosis of James Watt
5. Watt, inventor of the Industrial Revolution
6. 'What's Watt?' The radical critique
7. The technological pantheon
8. Heroes of the Pax Britannica
9. Debating the patent system
10. The workers' heroes
11. Maintaining the industrial spirit
12. Science and the disappearing inventor
Epilogue. The Victorian legacy
Bibliography
Index.