Engineering Empires: A Cultural History of Technology in Nineteenth-century Britain

by Ben Marsden (Author), Crosbie Smith (Author), Ben Marsden (Author), Crosbie Smith (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2004

  $158.27

  Engineers are empire-builders. Watt, Brunel, and others worked to build and expand personal and business empires of material technology and in so doing these engineers also became active agents of political and economic empire. This book provides a fascinating exploration of the cultural construction of the large-scale technologies of empire.