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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden
Brill
2007, 2007
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| Series: | The Atlantic world
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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 Baltic iron. Swedish and Russian iron surged onto the British market, meeting the demand that British ironmasters could not satisfy. This was of epochal importance: Swedish iron allowed British steel makers and hardware manufacturers to dominate Atlantic markets. In turn, the rhythms of Atlantic commerce resounded through peasant communities in Sweden. Baltic iron in the Atlantic world captures this moment. In doing so it internationalises Swedish history in a radical way and presses an oceanic perspective on the traditionally insular view of the rise of heavy industry in Britain |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (xiii, [16] pages of plates, 359 pages |
| ISBN: | 661193636X 1281936367 9786611936365 9781281936363 9004161538 9789004161535 |