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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2007.
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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.