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The Social Context of Innovation

Bureaucrats, Families and Heroes in the Early Industrial Revolution, as Foreseen in Bacon's "New Atlantis"
Buch | Softcover
175 Seiten
2003
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-0-8032-9837-8 (ISBN)
31,10 inkl. MwSt
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A collection of essays offering a multigenerational examination of the underlying social forces and everyday settings impelling and enabling early industrial innovation. It shows how the efforts of three generations of the Darby family improved iron production.
The history of technology, Anthony F. C. Wallace contends, must be imagined and investigated within a broader history of society. In these insightful essays, Wallace offers a multigenerational examination of the underlying social forces and everyday settings impelling and enabling early industrial innovation. The gradual development of the steam engine is illuminated through an examination of the far-reaching but unintentional role played by the British royal ordnance and naval establishments. Wallace shows how the efforts of three generations of the Darby family improved iron production. Finally, the sources of failure in industrial innovation are illustrated through the example of deep-shaft coal mining in nineteenth-century Pennsylvania, which went bankrupt because of inadequately financed operators who ignored standard safety procedures.

Anthony F. C. Wallace is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of such books as Revitalizations and Mazeways: Essays on Culture Change, Volume 1 (Nebraska 2003) and Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution, winner of the Bancroft Prize.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.11.2003
Einführung Anthony F. C. Wallace
Zusatzinfo 25 illustrations, table, index
Verlagsort Lincoln
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 227 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Sozialgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-8032-9837-4 / 0803298374
ISBN-13 978-0-8032-9837-8 / 9780803298378
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