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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| Language: | English |
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Leiden
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2007, 2007
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| Series: | The Atlantic world
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-344) and index