Book contents
- Technology in the Industrial Revolution
- New Approaches to the History of Science and Medicine
- Technology in the Industrial Revolution
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Sugar and Spice
- 2 Myths and Machines
- 3 Cottonopolis
- 4 Power and the People
- 5 The Vertical Mill
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Alternative Examples
- Bibliography
- Index
Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 January 2020
- Technology in the Industrial Revolution
- New Approaches to the History of Science and Medicine
- Technology in the Industrial Revolution
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Sugar and Spice
- 2 Myths and Machines
- 3 Cottonopolis
- 4 Power and the People
- 5 The Vertical Mill
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Alternative Examples
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The Industrial Revolution provides a useful case study of the complicated relationship between technological change and the changing world around it, and how they are bound up together and with the political goals and roles of the people and institutions involved.
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- Technology in the Industrial Revolution , pp. 185 - 187Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020