Making an Industrial Revolution

Skill, Knowledge, Community and Innovation
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-83765-222-8
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

A new look at Britain's industrial revolution showing how communities of shared skill, knowledge and experience drove industrial innovation.

Making an Industrial Revolution presents a fresh perspective on British industrialization. Advances in technology, commerce and science played their part, but - as this book argues - above all it was communities of shared skill, knowledge and experience which drove industrial innovation in the eighteenth century.

Connections and relationships in key sectors - iron, textiles and engineering - produced transformative forces that revolutionized industrial life in Britain. Including new insights into Scotland's unique contribution, the book explores industrial change across the country, highlighting the significance of inter-regional and overseas migration and connection. It considers how social status enabled or limited individuals. It questions how exactly eighteenth-century science linked with emerging industrial technologies; and the importance of science, relative to skills and experience, in shaping innovation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cookson, Gillian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. What people knew
2. Innovations in iron
3. Enlightened engineering

4. Gentlemen and players
5. The reach of science
6. The shape of networking
7. Creating a scene

8. Perspectives
Appendix: Webs of connection
Glossary of terms related to iron-making
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Cookson, Gillian
GILLIAN COOKSON is an industrial historian. She is the author of The Age of Machinery: Engineering the Industrial Revolution, 1770-1850, published by The Boydell Press in 2018.