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Industrial Espionage and Technology Transfer - Britain and France in the Eighteenth Century (Hardcover)
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Industrial Espionage and Technology Transfer - Britain and France in the Eighteenth Century (Hardcover)
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Britain and France were the leading industrial nations in
18th-century Europe. This book examines the rivalry which existed
between the two nations and the methods used by France to obtain
the skilled manpower and technology which had given Britain the
edge - particularly in the new coal-based technologies. Despite the
British Act of 1719 which outlawed industrial espionage and
technology transfer, France continued to bring key industrial
workers from Britain and to acquire British machinery and
production methods. Drawing on a mass of unpublished archival
material, this book investigates the nature and application of
British laws and the involvement of some major British
industrialists in these issues, and discusses the extent to which
French espionage had any real success. In the process it presents
an in-depth understanding of 18th-century economies, and the
cultures and bureaucracies which were so important in shaping
economic life. Above all, the late John Harris saw the history of
industrial espionage as "one means of restoring the thoughts and
activities of human beings to the centre stage of industrial
history". These are the stories of individuals - Holkers,
Trudaines, Wilkinsons, or Milnes - and their impact on the world.
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