The Industrial Revolution in Iron

The Impact of British Coal Technology in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Herausgeber: Evans, Chris; Rydén, Göran

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Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this volume trace the fortunes of British coal technology as it spread across the European continent, from Sweden and Russia to the Alps and Spain. They supply an authoritative picture of industrial transformation in one of the key industries of the 19th century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780754633907
• ISBN-10: 075463390X
• Artikelnr.: 54581351

Autorenporträt

Chris Evans is Principal Lecturer in History, University of Glamorgan, UK and Göran Rydén is an Assistant Professor in Economic History, Mid Sweden University, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; the Industrial Revolution in iron: an introduction,
Chris Evans and Göran Rydén; The Industrial Revolution in iron in the
British Isles, Chris Evans; Foreign trade - transfer - adaptation: British
iron making technology on the continent (Belgium and France), Rainer
Fremdling; The diffusion of coke smelting and puddling in Germany
1796-1860, Ralf Banken; The French iron and steel industry during the
Industrial Revolution, Jean-François Belhoste and Denis Woronoff; Good ore
but no coal, or coal but bad ore. Responses to the British challenge in the
Habsburg monarchy, Akos Paulinyi; Responses to coal technology without
coal. Swedish iron making in the 19th century, Göran Rydén; 19th-century
Russian and 'western' ferrous metallurgy: complementary or competitive
technologies?, Ian Blanchard; British technology and Spanish iron making
during the 19th century, Emiliano Fernández de Pinedo and Rafael Uriarte
Ayo; Bibliography; Index.