The Growth and Decline of the South Wales Iron Industry 1760-1880
Author : Michael Atkinson
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Michael Atkinson
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Michael Atkinson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,97 MB
Release : 1987
Category :
ISBN :
Author : John Lloyd
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 34,43 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Canals
ISBN :
Author : Laurence Ince
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Industries
ISBN :
Author : Roger Lloyd-Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1134221789
The authors use a long-wave framework to examine the historical evolution of British industrial capitalism since the late-18th century, and present a challenging and distinctive economic history of modern and contemporary Britain. The book is intended for undergraduate courses on the economic history of modern Britain within history, economic and social history, economic history and economic degree schemes, and economic theory courses.
Author : Chris Evans
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 37,22 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9004161538
This book looks at the one of the key commercial links between the Baltic and Atlantic worlds in the eighteenth century - the export of Swedish and Russian iron to Britain - and its role in the making of the modern world.
Author : Alan Birch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,31 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136617302
This book was first published in 1967. This volume explores the history of the British iron and steel industry from 1760, tracking its development, relationship with the British economy, regional hubs, technological developments and the final triumph of steel over iron.
Author : Paul Reynolds
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 2010-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1445742152
During its development and at the time that the south Wales iron industry was at its most successful the only way (other than by personal contact) in which contact between the different branches of the industry could be maintained was by letter. Thus the postal service ' both the General Post Office and a multiplicity of private posts ' made a vital contribution to the success of the industry which so far has received little attention. This work traces the development of the postal service in the south Wales valleys from its primitive state in the mid-18th century to what had become a recognisably modern postal service a hundred years later. It is based on information derived from the archives of the Post Office itself and of the various iron companies, from contemporary newspapers and from oral tradition recorded by later historians in the Valleys.
Author : Frank Dawson
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,70 MB
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0752477560
From a farming background in Cumbria, John Wilkinson's remarkable abilities and ambitions ensured his rise to pre-eminence among the gifted pioneers of the industrial revolution. His colleagues and friends were similarly talented characters, including James Watt, Josiah Wedgwood, Richard Crawshay and Thomas Telford. Wilkinson achieved great leaps in the iron industry and munitions, including the first use of sound castings and accurate boring for cannon manufacture, but he was also influential in the development of steam railway engines, waterways, and copper refining, and worked extensively with lead and chemicals. But while Wilkinson's technological triumphs were admired by his contemporaries, his personal affairs were complicated and sometimes tragic. This well-informed and readable book, based on research by the author born of a fascination with Wilkinson after living at his family home, gives a unique insight into the character and thinking of the man Telford named 'King of the Ironmasters'.
Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2462 pages
File Size : 49,89 MB
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1351670166
The volumes in this set, originally published between 1967 and 1997, draw together research by leading academics in the area of the industrial revolution and provides an examination of related key issues. The volumes examine urban workers and the working class in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, economic growth during the industrial revolution, and the causes of the industrial revolution, with a primary focus on England. This set will be of particular interest to students of history, business and economics.