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Anthony Burton
Ten Engineers Who Made Britain Great [EPUB ebook]
The Men Behind the Industrial Revolution

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Samuel Smiles published Lives of the Engineers in 1862. The noted biographer presented his engineers as heroic progress makers who conquered nature and overcame impossible obstacles to drive the Industrial Revolution forward, but included twisted and often fabricated accounts in his work.
In Ten Engineers Who Made Britain Great, Anthony Burton seeks to correct this narrative by offering nuanced portraits of some of the best-known engineers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuri...

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ANTHONY BURTON specialises in the history of technology and transport. His books include The Anatomy of Canals, The Iron Men, Miners, Navvies, and The Workers’ War. He...

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Língua Inglês ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 224 ● ISBN 9781803992990 ● Tamanho do arquivo 18.1 MB ● Editora The History Press ● Cidade London ● País GB ● Publicado 2023 ● Carregável 24 meses ● Moeda EUR ● ID 8771473 ● Proteção contra cópia DRM social

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