Engineering Empires: A Cultural History of Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (643 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0230507042 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 351 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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F Cip said Three Stars. Interesting but not really my style.
Engineering Empires purveys the same double meaning. It is an important story, and Marsden and Smith tell it in an incisive and deeply informed way.' - Professor Bruce J. While it focuses on technologies of power in industry, transport, and communications it explores the social and cultural mechanisms through which engineers and scientists built up their personal and business empires at the same time as they facilitated the global expansion and hold of British imperialism. In particular, it is sensitive to the means by which trust was established, confidence maintained, and reputations won or lost; how demonstrable failures, such as the breaking of submarine telegraph cables, could be re-interpreted as harbingers of ultimate success' - Christine Macleod, University of Bristol, in the Economic H
He subsequently held the British Academy/Royal Society Research fellowship in the History of Science before taking up his present post. He edited the British Journal for the History of Science from 1999 until 2004. BEN MARSDEN is currently Lecturer in Cultural History in the Department of History at the University of Aberdeen, UK. He read mathematics at Cambridg
Engineers are empire-builders. This book provides a fascinating exploration of the cultural construction of the large-scale technologies of empire.. 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