Author: Gary Richard HawkePublisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Railways and Economic Growth in England and Wales, 1840-1870
Author: Gary Richard HawkePublisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Railways and Economic Growth in England and Wales, 1840-70
Author: Gary Richard HawkePublisher:
ISBN: 9780198282495
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Railways and the Victorian Imagination
Author: Michael J. FreemanPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300079708
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Discusses the cultural and social effect that the railway had on nineteenth century society in Great Britain
Railways and Economic Growth in England and Wales, 1840-1870
Author: Gary Richard HawkePublisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Railways and the Formation of the Italian State in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Albert SchramPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521571593
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
An account of the role of railways in Italian political and economic life during the process of unification.
An Historical Geography of Railways in Great Britain and Ireland
Author: David TurnockPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351958933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Although a great deal has been published on the economic, social and engineering history of nineteenth-century railways, the work of historical geographers has been much less conspicuous. This overview by David Turnock goes a long way towards restoring the balance. It details every important aspect of the railway’s influence on spatial distribution of economic and social change, providing a full account of the nineteenth-century geography of the British Isles seen in the context of the railway. The book reviews and explains the shape of the developing railway network, beginning with the pre-steam railways and connections between existing road and water communications and the new rail lines. The author also discusses the impact of the railways on the patterns of industrial, urban and rural change throughout the century. Throughout, the historical geography of Ireland is treated in equal detail to that of Great Britain.
An Economic History of British Steam Engines, 1774-1870
Author: Haris KitsikopoulosPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031273621
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
This book traces the diffusion trajectory of the second and third generation of British steam engines, the Watt and high-pressure models, covering the period 1774 to 1870. It begins by subjecting to econometric analysis the latest version of Dr. Kanefsky's database on 18th century steam engines coming up with an upward revision of the total amount of horsepower installed by 1800. Subsequent chapters delve into the determinants of the diffusion process through the third quarter of the 19th century relating to engines used both in mining and industry as well as transportation (railways, steam cars). The book's main contribution to the literature lies in drawing material from a very large volume of 18th- and 19th-century sources found in the Dibner Library of Rare Books, Smithsonian, and by utilizing a fair amount of technical literature pertaining to the economic factors driving the diffusion process. This great expansion of the empirical material has led to bringing multiple revisions to the work of other authors on the key aspects and determinants of the diffusion process. In conjunction with the publication by the author of an earlier monograph on the first generation of steam engines, the Newcomen model, the present study completes the task of offering the most comprehensive account of the preeminent and most strategic technology of the British Industrial Revolution. This book will appeal to students, scholars, and researchers of economic history and history of technology, interested in a better understanding of the industrial revolution in general and the role of British steam engines in particular.
Railways and the Economic Development of Western Europe, 1830-1914
Author: Patrick O'BrienPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 134906324X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Society and Economy in Modern Britain 1700-1850
Author: Richard BrownPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134982771
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
For both contemporaries and later historians the Industrial Revolution is viewed as a turning point' in modern British history. There is no doubt that change occurred, but what was the nature of that change and how did affect rural and urban society? Beginning with an examination of the nature of history and Britain in 1700, this volume focuses on the economic and social aspects of the Industrial Revolution. Unlike many previous textbooks on the same period, it emphasizes British history, and deals with developments in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland in their own right. It is the emphasis on the diversity, not the uniformity of experience, on continuities as well as change in this crucial period of development, which makes this volume distinctive. In his companion title Richard Brown completes his examination of the period and looks at the changes that took place in Britain's political system and in its religious affiliations.
Railways and the British Economy, 1830-1914
Author: Terence Richard GourvishPublisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description