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

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Author:: B. Marsden
Publisher:: Palgrave MacMillan
Publication Date:: Dec 07, 2004
Number of pages:: 351 pages
Binding:: Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10:: 0333772784
ISBN-13:: 9780333772782

Overview

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.