{"product_id":"measures-for-measure-mike-leeder-9781780460819","title":"Measures for Measure: Geology and the Industrial Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChoice 'Outstanding Academic Title' award 2022\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeasures for Measure\u003c\/i\u003e features once greatly-disturbed landscapes - now largely reclaimed, physically at least, by post-industrial activity. Yet the surviving machines, buildings and housing of the original Industrial Revolution, founded mostly upon Coal Measures strata, still loom large over many parts of Britain. They do so nowadays in the family-friendly and informative context of industrial museums, reconstructed industrial settlements, preserved landscapes and historic townscapes. Our society and its creative core of literature, visual arts and architecture were profoundly affected by the whole process. The British Carboniferous legacy for wider humankind was profound and permanent, more so with the realisation over the last 60 or so years that the emission of carbon dioxide during human utilisation of fossil fuels has caused global warming - with all its many unintended consequences. \u003cbr\u003e Coal, iron ore and other metallic ores and materials had been extracted from Carboniferous strata and traded for over five hundred years before the Industrial Revolution, notably since thirteenth century in the 'London Trade' of coal from Tyneside. By contrast, the neighbouring island of Ireland had no great deposits of coal and ironstone, although with gold, copper, lead and zinc aplenty. What produced this abundance of fossil carbon preserved in the Carboniferous rocks of Britain? Why did the Industrial Revolution originate in Britain in the early- to mid-eighteenth century and not elsewhere in mainland Europe where coal was also abundant?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinked geological, economic and social factors combined to enable the formation, preservation, exposure and exploitation of neighbouring coal- and iron-bearing reserves. The principal features of the distinctive industrial regions that grew up are traced back to their landscapes and geology in a major section of the book. Great industrial cities became wonders of the world, their entrepreneurs and industrialists proud at what they had created. However, industrial workers in their mines, foundries, forges, factories and mills had to collectively fight for economic, political and social rights and then to cope with the many traumas of de-industrialisation and unemployment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeasures for Measure\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to all with an interest in the industrial history of Great Britain and its impact on the landscape, economy, social history and culture of the island.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mike Leeder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1780460813\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781780460819\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/05\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.10w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2022","brand":"Mike Leeder","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46795592761599,"sku":"9781780460819","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_10831728-2648-4edf-a32c-3566aa1f5b6f.jpg?v=1744948079","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/measures-for-measure-mike-leeder-9781780460819","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}