Transport and the Industrial City: Manchester and the Canal Age, 1750–1850
Author:   Peter Maw ,  Rebecca Mortimer
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
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9780719083600


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   01 March 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Transport and the Industrial City: Manchester and the Canal Age, 1750–1850


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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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Author:   Peter Maw ,  Rebecca Mortimer
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.676kg
ISBN:  

9780719083600


ISBN 10:   0719083605
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   01 March 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Manchester canals: Trade, commodities, and markets 3. Competition and complementarity: Canals, roads and rails in Manchester 4. Bringing goods to market: Carriers in the canal age 5. On the waterfront: Basins, warehouses and wharves in canal-age Manchester 6. The waterfront and the factory 7. Canals, transport, and the industrial revolution in Manchester 8. Conclusion Sources and bibliography Index -- .

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Peter Maw is Senior Lecturer in History at Northumbria University

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