عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
T14.5 .M37 2005
T14
.
5
.
M37
2005
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0230507042 (pbk)
(Number (ISBN
0333772784
(Number (ISBN
9780230507043 (pbk)
(Number (ISBN
9780333772782
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
dltt
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Engineering empires :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
a cultural history of technology in nineteenth-century Britain /
First Statement of Responsibility
Ben Marsden and Crosbie Smith
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2005
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xi, 351 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill. ;
Dimensions
23 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 290-319) and index
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"Engineers are empire-builders. James Watt, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Robert Stephenson and a host of less well known figures worked to build and expand personal and business empires of material technology founded on and sustained by durable networks of trust and expertise. In so doing these engineers and their heirs also became active agents of political and economic empire. Indeed, steamships, railways and electric telegraph systems increasingly complemented one another to form what one early twentieth-century telegraph engineer aptly termed 'our most powerful weapon in the cause of Inter-Imperial Commerce'. This book provides an exploration of the cultural construction of the large-scale technologies of empire."--BOOK JACKET
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Technology-- Social aspects-- Great Britain
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
306
.
4/6/094109034
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
T14
.
5
Class number
T14
.
5
Book number
.
M37
2005
Book number
.
M37
2005
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Marsden, Ben
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Smith, Crosbie
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20120504105731.0
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
Y
