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Woodworking has been one of the most important technologies from the earliest times. Carpentry was important for buildings and bridges and as an integral part of most construction processes. The history of this subject has been explored by a variety of scholars, from archaeologists to engineers. The different studies have explored the methods of carpentry, the behaviour of the structures that were built and even the economic and social histories behind the development of carpentry techniques. This book collects together a number of papers representing this full range of scholarship as well as providing a general review of work in the field.

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'The aim of Ashgate's twelve volume series is to bring together collections of important papers on particular topics from scholarly journals, conference proceedings and other hard-to-access sources. This is a wholly laudable objective. Some of the papers in the volume under review [The Civil Engineering of Canals and Railways before 1850] cannot be found even in abundantly-resourced academic libraries. The series opens up, directly or indirectly, debates over the nature of historical evidence which arise from the profoundly different approaches to the past of historians of technology, whose works are principally represented in these volumes, industrial archaeologists and social and economic historians.' Industrial Archaeology Review, Vol. XXI, No. 1

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David T. Yeomans, University of Liverpool, UK F. W. B. Charles, Walter Horn, Richard Harris, J. Quentin Hughes, Cecil A. Hewett, Lynn T. Courtenay, R. Mark, Jacques Heyman, David T. Yeomans, L. G. Booth, Henry M. Fletcher, Douglas Harnsberger, Lee H. Nelson, Emory L. Kemp, John Hall, J. G. James.

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