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Reinhold Rucker Angerstein was an eighteenth-century industrial spy. He travelled widely in Europe in the 1750s, supported by the Swedish government, gathering information about trade and emerging technology. The diary of his trip to Britain is extraordinary for its quality of observation and insight, its comparative nature and the large number of detailed illustrations. The breadth of its coverage is astounding: coal, tin and copper mines, porcelain factories, iron foundries, smithies and workshops, rolling and slitting mills, chemical factories, water works and so on. This English-language translation provides, for the first time, Angerstein's work in accessible form. It will be of immense significance to historians of the period.

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A vital book chronicling the Swedish traveller's journey throughout England... -- Tools and Trades History Society, Winter 2001. Everyone working on this period will be grateful to Peter Berg for completing his late father's task... -- Industrial Archaeology Review, Summer 2002. A vivid portrait of British Society on the eve of the industrial revolution... -- Business History, Summer 2002. Packed with useful information... a repository of contemporary facts and figures that provides a detailed portrait of industrialising Britain... -- British Journal for History of Science, March 2002. This volume is undoubtedly to be welcomed... -- English Historical Review, February 2002. A very important book that will prove invaluable to all historians... -- Express Star (West Midlands), July 2003. ...this book represents a valuable and well-priced source for the archaeology, and especially the industrial archaeology, of 18th-century England and Wales. -- Post-Medieval Archaeology, Winter 2003/4.

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Torsten and Peter Berg, Translators

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