Baltic iron in the Atlantic world in the eighteenth century

The eighteenth century is often viewed as the heroic age of the British iron industry - a time of triumphant technological progress. In fact, it was an age of thwarted ambition, when the take-up of new technologies proved frustratingly slow. The eighteenth century was more accurately the age of Balt...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Evans, Chris, 1961- (-)
Otros Autores: Ryden, Goran
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Brill 2007.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 13.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The warehouse of the world : commerce and production in the early modern Atlantic world
  • The topography of the early modern iron trade, c. 1730
  • The international iron trade at a crossroads : Swedish and British debates, 1730-1760
  • An industrial revolution in iron technology, organisation and markets, 1760-1870.