The South Wales Iron Industry, 1750-1885
Author : Laurence Ince
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,66 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Industries
ISBN :
Author : Laurence Ince
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,66 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Industries
ISBN :
Author : Richard Hayman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 47,97 MB
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1784420840
The iron industry was the catalyst for the Industrial Revolution, producing a vital source of iron without which none of the great engineering achievements of the Victorian age would have been possible. This book charts the growth of iron making from the Middle Ages, covering the importation of blast-furnace methods in the fifteenth century, the adoption of coke as a fuel in the eighteenth century, and the invention of mass-produced steel in the nineteenth century. The developing techniques of iron making, all explained in a non-technical style, make a story in their own right, but combined with the experiences of the masters and workmen who laboured at the furnaces and forges, this volume offers a truly comprehensive account of one of the most important industries of recent centuries.
Author : Brian Davies
Publisher :
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Iron industry and trade
ISBN :
Author : W.E Minchinton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 10,19 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136617795
South Wales was one of the main centres of the Industrial Revolution in Britain but the story of the rapid growth of an industrial society there has not yet been fully told, since much of the work done has consisted of articles rather than books. This volume brings together a selection of important contributions hitherto only accessible in a large number of scattered periodicals. These articles have been selected to present a considered sequence and are preceded by an introduction which puts the story of the industrialization of Wales into perspective. They deal firstly with the problems of population and migration then with the basic industries of iron, coal, tinplate and copper. These are followed by essays on banking, and the volume concludes with contributions on trade unionism and building. This is by no means merely the story of regional development since the book has a wider appeal; a number of the articles are concerned with the links with America and with the place of Wales in the Atlantic economy. Amongst the authors are the late Sir Lewis Namier and some of the leading writers on the history of modern Wales including Brinley Thomas and A. H. Dodd.
Author : John Lloyd
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 36,32 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Canals
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Evan Watkins
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 31,77 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Iron industry and trade
ISBN :
Author : Michael Atkinson
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 28,75 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Mary-Ann Constantine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 16,45 MB
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192593048
Curious Travellers: Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820 provides the first extensive literary study of British tours of Wales in the Romantic period (c.1760-1820). It examines writers' responses to Welsh landscapes and communities at a time of drastic economic, environmental, and political change. Opening with an overview of Welsh tours up to the early 1700s, Mary-Ann Constantine shows how the intensely intertextual nature of the genre imbued particular sites and locations with meaning. She next draws upon a range of manuscript and published sources to trace a circular tour of the country, unpicking moments of cultural entanglement and revealing how travel-writing shaped understanding of Wales and Welshness within the wider British polity. Wales became a popular destination for visitors following the publication of Thomas Pennant's Tours in Wales in the late 1770s. Hundreds of travel-accounts from the period are extant, yet few (particularly those by women) have been studied in depth. Wales proves, in these narratives, as much a place of disturbance as a picturesque haven--a potent mixture of medieval past and industrial present, exposed down its west coast to the threat of invasion during the Napoleonic Wars. From castles to copper-mines, Constantine explores the full potential of tour writing as an idiosyncratic genre at the interface of literature and history, arguing for its vital importance to broader cultural and environmental studies.
Author : Stephen Hughes
Publisher : Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1871184320
Dadansoddiad darluniadol o dirlun diwydiannol ardal Abertawe yn adlewyrchu dylanwad hanes a datblygiad y diwydiant copr ar fywyd cymdeithasol ac economaidd, addysgol a chrefyddol y fro yn ystod y 18fed a'r 19eg ganrif. Dros 300 o luniau du-a-gwyn. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 2008-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1137061405
Jeremy Black sets the politics of eighteenth century Britain into the fascinating context of social, economic, cultural, religious and scientific developments. The second edition of this successful text by a leading authority in the field has now been updated and expanded to incorporate the latest research and scholarship.