Transport and the industrial city : Manchester and the canal age, 1750-1850 /

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This book presents the first scholarly study of the contribution of canals to Britain's industrial revolution. Although the achievements of canal engineers remain central to popular understandings of industrialisation, historians have been surprisingly reticent to analyse the full scope of the...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Maw, Peter (Historian) (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Industrialization > England > Manchester.
Industrial revolution > England > Manchester.
Urban transportation > England > Manchester.
Canals > England > Manchester.
Manchester (England) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Manchester canals : trade, commodities and markets
  • 3. Competition and complementarity : canals, roads and railways in Manchester
  • 4. Bringing goods to market : carriers in the canal age
  • 5. On the waterfront : basins, warehouses and wharves in canal-age Manchester
  • 6. The waterfront and the factory
  • 7. Canals, transport and the Industrial Revolution in Manchester
  • 8. Conclusion.

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