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Baltic iron in the Atlantic world in the eighteenth century /

The eighteenth century is often viewed as the heroic age of the British iron industry - a time of triumphant technological progress. In fact, it was an age of thwarted ambition, when the take-up of new technologies proved frustratingly slow. The eighteenth century was more accurately the age of Balt...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Evans, Chris, 1961-
Other Authors: Rydén, Göran
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
Series:The Atlantic world ; v. 13.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The warehouse of the world : commerce and production in the early modern Atlantic world
  • The topography of the early modern iron trade, c. 1730
  • The international iron trade at a crossroads : Swedish and British debates, 1730-1760
  • An industrial revolution in iron: technology, organisation and markets, 1760-1870.