Making an Industrial Revolution: Skill, Knowledge, Community and Innovation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781837652228)

Making an Industrial Revolution presents a fresh perspective on British industrialization. Advances in technology, commerce and science played their part, but - as this book argues - above all it was communities of shared skill, knowledge and experience which drove industrial innovation in the eighteenth century.

Connections and relationships in key sectors - iron, textiles and engineering - produced transformative forces that revolutionized industrial life in Britain. Including new insights into Scotland's unique contribution, the book explores industrial change across the country, highlighting the significance of inter-regional and overseas migration and connection. It considers how social status enabled or limited individuals. It questions how exactly eighteenth-century science linked with emerging industrial technologies; and the importance of science, relative to skills and experience, in shaping innovation.

Author: Gillian Cookson
ISBN-10: 1837652228
ISBN-13: 9781837652228
Publisher: Boydell Press
Language: English
Published: 01/14/2025
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover