Author: Alfred Fell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136941452
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
First Published in 1968. Originally intended for a short account or the chronicles of a mining and iron-making company, this study grew to its present size and now includes a historical and descriptive Account from earliest times to the end of the Eighteenth Century with an account of the Furness Ironmasters in Scotland from 1726 to 1800.
The Early Iron Industry of Furness and Districts
Author: Alfred Fell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113694138X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
First Published in 1968. Originally intended for a short account or the chronicles of a mining and iron-making company, this study grew to its present size and now includes a historical and descriptive Account from earliest times to the end of the Eighteenth Century with an account of the Furness Ironmasters in Scotland from 1726 to 1800.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113694138X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
First Published in 1968. Originally intended for a short account or the chronicles of a mining and iron-making company, this study grew to its present size and now includes a historical and descriptive Account from earliest times to the end of the Eighteenth Century with an account of the Furness Ironmasters in Scotland from 1726 to 1800.
The Early Iron Industry of Furness and District
Woodland Conservation and Management
Author: G. F. Peterken
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 148992857X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Professor John Harper, in his recent Population Biology of Plants (1977), made a comment and asked a question which effectively states the theme of this book. Noting that 'one of the consequences of the development of the theory of vegetational climax has been to guide the observer's mind forwards', i. e. that 'vegetation is interpreted asa stage on the way to something', he commented that 'it might be more healthy and scientifically more sound to look more often backwards and search for the explanation of the present in the past, to explain systems in relation to their history rather than their goal'. He went on to contrast the 'disaster theory' of plant succession, which holds that communities are a response to the effects of past disasters, with the 'climax theory', that they are stages in the approach to a climax state, and then asked 'do we account most completely for the characteristics of a population by a knowledge of its history or of its destiny?' Had this question been put to R. S. Adamson, E. J. Salisbury, A. G. Tansley or A. S. Watt, who are amongst the giants of the first forty years of woodland ecology in Britain, their answer would surely have been that understanding lies in a knowledge of destiny. Whilst not unaware of the historical facts of British woodlands, they were preoccupied with ideas of natural succession and climax, and tended to interpret their observations in these terms.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 148992857X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Professor John Harper, in his recent Population Biology of Plants (1977), made a comment and asked a question which effectively states the theme of this book. Noting that 'one of the consequences of the development of the theory of vegetational climax has been to guide the observer's mind forwards', i. e. that 'vegetation is interpreted asa stage on the way to something', he commented that 'it might be more healthy and scientifically more sound to look more often backwards and search for the explanation of the present in the past, to explain systems in relation to their history rather than their goal'. He went on to contrast the 'disaster theory' of plant succession, which holds that communities are a response to the effects of past disasters, with the 'climax theory', that they are stages in the approach to a climax state, and then asked 'do we account most completely for the characteristics of a population by a knowledge of its history or of its destiny?' Had this question been put to R. S. Adamson, E. J. Salisbury, A. G. Tansley or A. S. Watt, who are amongst the giants of the first forty years of woodland ecology in Britain, their answer would surely have been that understanding lies in a knowledge of destiny. Whilst not unaware of the historical facts of British woodlands, they were preoccupied with ideas of natural succession and climax, and tended to interpret their observations in these terms.
The Prehistory of Metallurgy in the British Isles: 5
Author: R. F. Tylecote
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351199455
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 675
Book Description
"First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company."
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351199455
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 675
Book Description
"First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company."
Lancashire and Cheshire from AD1540
Author: C. B. Phillips
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317871677
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
This series, fully illustrated with maps and half-tones, is written for general readers as well as the student. In illuminating the anonymous lives of our predecessors it will, when complete, substantially enrich our understanding of the many histories which together make up the history of England. This authoritative volume surveys the modern history of the counties of Lancashire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Cheshire. In 1540 this was a backward area, poor, underpopulated and conservative. During the seventeenth and early eighteenth century the spread of the first cottage industries to the mills and the mines transformed the region into one of the engines of Britain's nineteenth-century greatness. The causes, the costs and the consequences of that transformation are vividly portrayed in this very readable text. Offers a succinct account and analysis of the first region to experience the developed factory system. Discusses the rise, dominance and decline of the region which has parallels across the country and the world. Provides essential background text for the students of local history. Assumes no previous knowledge of the region.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317871677
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
This series, fully illustrated with maps and half-tones, is written for general readers as well as the student. In illuminating the anonymous lives of our predecessors it will, when complete, substantially enrich our understanding of the many histories which together make up the history of England. This authoritative volume surveys the modern history of the counties of Lancashire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Cheshire. In 1540 this was a backward area, poor, underpopulated and conservative. During the seventeenth and early eighteenth century the spread of the first cottage industries to the mills and the mines transformed the region into one of the engines of Britain's nineteenth-century greatness. The causes, the costs and the consequences of that transformation are vividly portrayed in this very readable text. Offers a succinct account and analysis of the first region to experience the developed factory system. Discusses the rise, dominance and decline of the region which has parallels across the country and the world. Provides essential background text for the students of local history. Assumes no previous knowledge of the region.
The Autobiography of William Stout of Lancaster
Author: William Stout (of Lancaster.)
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Economic HIstory of the British Iron and Steel Industry
Author: Alan Birch
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113661723X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113661723X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
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.
Culture, Conflict, and Migration
Author: Donald M. MacRaild
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780853236627
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A major study of Catholic and Protestant Irish in an important but neglected center of historic Irish settlement where communal violence and Irish-related antipathy bore the hallmarks of the Liverpool and Glasgow experiences. "Culture, Conflict and Migration... deserves to be read as an important contribution to the growing literature on the Irish in Britain."Irish Studies Review
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780853236627
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A major study of Catholic and Protestant Irish in an important but neglected center of historic Irish settlement where communal violence and Irish-related antipathy bore the hallmarks of the Liverpool and Glasgow experiences. "Culture, Conflict and Migration... deserves to be read as an important contribution to the growing literature on the Irish in Britain."Irish Studies Review
A Gazetteer of the British Iron Industry, 1490-1815
Author: Peter King
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781407354699
Category : Blast furnaces
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
"A new process of making iron, using a blast furnace and a forge, both powered by water, was introduced into the Weald in the 1490s, and spread to other parts of England and Wales from the 1550s. This book provides a history of every ironworks of the charcoal blast furnace period, except the Weald. It also covers early coke ironworks (built before 1815) and water-powered bloomeries (of the previous technology). After introductory material on the industry generally, each chapter deals with the ironworks of one district, including also other water-powered mills processing iron, steel furnaces, early ironworks powered by steam engines, and a few other works. Blade mills (and cutlers wheels), which provided the initial cutting edge for tools and needle mills are not included in those areas where they are ubiquitous. The period covered is an era in the technology of an important industry in Great Britain."--Volumes 1-2, back cover (page 4 of cover).
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781407354699
Category : Blast furnaces
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
"A new process of making iron, using a blast furnace and a forge, both powered by water, was introduced into the Weald in the 1490s, and spread to other parts of England and Wales from the 1550s. This book provides a history of every ironworks of the charcoal blast furnace period, except the Weald. It also covers early coke ironworks (built before 1815) and water-powered bloomeries (of the previous technology). After introductory material on the industry generally, each chapter deals with the ironworks of one district, including also other water-powered mills processing iron, steel furnaces, early ironworks powered by steam engines, and a few other works. Blade mills (and cutlers wheels), which provided the initial cutting edge for tools and needle mills are not included in those areas where they are ubiquitous. The period covered is an era in the technology of an important industry in Great Britain."--Volumes 1-2, back cover (page 4 of cover).
Catalogue
Author: Bibliotheca Jacksoniana
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cumberland (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cumberland (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description