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Transport and the industrial city
Manchester and the canal age, 1750–1850
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Englisch
Veröffentlicht/Copyright:
2013
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This book presents the first scholarly study of the contribution of canals to Britain’s industrial revolution. Although the achievements of canal engineers remain central to popular understandings of industrialisation, historians have been surprisingly reticent to analyse the full scope of the connections between canals, transport and the first industrial revolution.
Focusing on Manchester, Britain’s major centre of both industrial and transport innovation, it shows that canals were at the heart of the self-styled Cottonopolis. Not only did canals move the key commodities of Manchester’s industrial revolution –coal, corn, and cotton – but canal banks also provided the key sites for the factories that made Manchester the ‘shock city’ of the early Victorian age. This book will become essential reading for historians and students interested in the industrial revolution, transport, and the unique history of Manchester, the world’s first industrial city.
Focusing on Manchester, Britain’s major centre of both industrial and transport innovation, it shows that canals were at the heart of the self-styled Cottonopolis. Not only did canals move the key commodities of Manchester’s industrial revolution –coal, corn, and cotton – but canal banks also provided the key sites for the factories that made Manchester the ‘shock city’ of the early Victorian age. This book will become essential reading for historians and students interested in the industrial revolution, transport, and the unique history of Manchester, the world’s first industrial city.
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Contributor: Peter Maw
Peter Maw is Senior Lecturer in History at Northumbria University
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This book is a major achievement, and a welcome and important contribution to the published literature on Manchester and on the Industrial Revolution. It is well structured, packed with a wealth of factual detail but with a powerful theoretical base, and (no mean achievement for a work on economic history) fluent, jargon-free, clearly written and eminently readable.'
Maw's work [...] represents a very important and substantial study of the impact of canal transportation on the ‘first industrial city’. It not only answers many questions about the commercial operation of canals and their impact on urban form, but also suggests some new and important avenues for research.
Maw's work [...] represents a very important and substantial study of the impact of canal transportation on the ‘first industrial city’. It not only answers many questions about the commercial operation of canals and their impact on urban form, but also suggests some new and important avenues for research.
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List of tables
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1 Introduction
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2 Manchester canals
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3 Competition and complementarity
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4 Bringing goods to market
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5 On the waterfront
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6 The waterfront and the factory
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7 Canals, transport and the Industrial Revolution in Manchester
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8 Conclusion
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Bibliography
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Index
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