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Heroes of Invention - Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750-1914 (Hardcover)
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Heroes of Invention - Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750-1914 (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
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This innovative study adopts a completely new perspective on both
the industrial revolution and nineteenth-century British culture.
It investigates why inventors rose to heroic stature and popular
acclaim in Victorian Britain, attested by numerous monuments,
biographies, and honors, and contends there was no decline in the
industrial nation's self-esteem before 1914. In a period notorious
for hero-worship, the veneration of inventors might seem
unremarkable, were it not for their previous disparagement and the
relative neglect suffered by their twentieth-century successors.
Christine MacLeod argues that inventors became figureheads of
various nineteenth-century factions, from economic and political
liberals to impoverished scientists, and radical artisans, who
deployed their heroic reputation, not least to challenge the
aristocracy's hold on power and the militaristic national identity
that bolstered it. Although this was a challenge that ultimately
failed, its legacy for present-day ideas about invention,
inventors, and the history of the industrial revolution remains
highly influential.
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