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Transport and the Industrial City - Manchester and the Canal Age, 1750-1850 (Hardcover)
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Transport and the Industrial City - Manchester and the Canal Age, 1750-1850 (Hardcover)
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This book presents the first scholarly study of the contribution of
canals to Britain's industrial revolution. Although the
achievements of canal engineers remain central to popular
understandings of industrialisation, historians have been
surprisingly reticent to analyse the full scope of the connections
between canals, transport and the first industrial revolution.
Focusing on Manchester, Britain's major centre of both industrial
and transport innovation, it shows that canals were at the heart of
the self-styled Cottonopolis. Not only did canals move the key
commodities of Manchester's industrial revolution -coal, corn, and
cotton - but canal banks also provided the key sites for the
factories that made Manchester the 'shock city' of the early
Victorian age. This book will become essential reading for
historians and students interested in the industrial revolution,
transport, and the unique history of Manchester, the world's first
industrial city. -- .
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