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The Canal Builders: The Men Who Constructed Britain's Canals
Canal Builders is a classic history book for anyone interested in the development of Britains canal system....
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Canal Builders is a classic history book for anyone interested in the development of Britains canal system. The book, which was first published in the 1970s, is now republished here in a new fifth edition. It takes the reader from the middle of the eighteenth century, to the start of the railway age in the early nineteenth century.
Anthony Burton has revised and improved the original text, using new material that he has found in archives since it was first published, and has added many extra illustrations.
This is the remarkable story of the many groups of people who were responsible for building Britains canal system. There were industrialists, such as Josiah Wedgwood, who promoted canals to help his own industry, and speculators, who financed the projects in the hope of a good return. The work was planned by engineers, some of whom, such as James Brindley and Thomas Telford, have become famous, while others have remained virtually unknown but still did magnificent work. This is also the story of the great, anonymous army of men who actually did the work the navvies.
This was the first book ever to study the lives of these labourers in detail. Altogether it is an epic story of how the transport route that made the industrial revolution possible was built.
'Well planned and well written There is no better introduction to the early canal age.' The Economist
Author: Anthony Burton, Arnold Kriegstein, Henry Kriegstein
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
Published: 07/23/2021
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.70w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781399014304
About the Author
Burton, Anthony: - Anthony Burton is a freelance author and broadcaster, who has specialized in industrial and transport history. He has been involved in around a hundred TV documentaries on these subjects, appearing on all the major networks. He has written biographies of some of the leading characters of the early industrial age: Thomas Telford, Richard Trevithick, Joseph Locke and Matthew Boulton, the latter with Jennifer TannKriegstein, Arnold: - Arnold and Henry Kriegstein are identical twins who share a love of naval history and have been collecting maritime art for forty years. ARNOLD KRIEGSTIEN is the John G Bowes Distinguished Professor of Stem Cell and Tissue Biology and Director of the Institute for Regeneration Medicine at the University of California.Kriegstein, Henry: - HENRY KRIEGSTEIN is an ophthalmologist who practices in Massachusetts, and his other interests include astronomy and palaeontology.
Anthony Burton has revised and improved the original text, using new material that he has found in archives since it was first published, and has added many extra illustrations.
This is the remarkable story of the many groups of people who were responsible for building Britains canal system. There were industrialists, such as Josiah Wedgwood, who promoted canals to help his own industry, and speculators, who financed the projects in the hope of a good return. The work was planned by engineers, some of whom, such as James Brindley and Thomas Telford, have become famous, while others have remained virtually unknown but still did magnificent work. This is also the story of the great, anonymous army of men who actually did the work the navvies.
This was the first book ever to study the lives of these labourers in detail. Altogether it is an epic story of how the transport route that made the industrial revolution possible was built.
'Well planned and well written There is no better introduction to the early canal age.' The Economist
Author: Anthony Burton, Arnold Kriegstein, Henry Kriegstein
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
Published: 07/23/2021
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.70w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781399014304
About the Author
Burton, Anthony: - Anthony Burton is a freelance author and broadcaster, who has specialized in industrial and transport history. He has been involved in around a hundred TV documentaries on these subjects, appearing on all the major networks. He has written biographies of some of the leading characters of the early industrial age: Thomas Telford, Richard Trevithick, Joseph Locke and Matthew Boulton, the latter with Jennifer TannKriegstein, Arnold: - Arnold and Henry Kriegstein are identical twins who share a love of naval history and have been collecting maritime art for forty years. ARNOLD KRIEGSTIEN is the John G Bowes Distinguished Professor of Stem Cell and Tissue Biology and Director of the Institute for Regeneration Medicine at the University of California.Kriegstein, Henry: - HENRY KRIEGSTEIN is an ophthalmologist who practices in Massachusetts, and his other interests include astronomy and palaeontology.
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