Baltic Iron in the Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-04-16153-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 858 g

Reihe: The Atlantic World

The eighteenth century is often viewed as the heroic age of the British iron industry - a time of triumphant technological progress. In fact, it was an age of thwarted ambition, when the take-up of new technologies proved frustratingly slow. The eighteenth century was more accurately the age of Baltic iron. Swedish and Russian iron surged onto the British market, meeting the demand that British ironmasters could not satisfy. This was of epochal importance: Swedish iron allowed British steel makers and hardware manufacturers to dominate Atlantic markets. In turn, the rhythms of Atlantic commerce resounded through peasant communities in Sweden. Baltic iron in the Atlantic world captures this moment. In doing so it internationalises Swedish history in a radical way and presses an oceanic perspective on the traditionally insular view of the rise of heavy industry in Britain.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Evans, Chris

Rydén, Göran

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps, Figures, Illustrations, and Tables
Abbreviations

Chapter One. The Warehouse of the World. Commerce and Production in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Chapter Two. The Topography of the Early Modern Iron Trade, c.1730
Chapter Three. The International Iron Trade at a Crossroads: Swedish and British Debates, 1730-1760
Chapter Four. An Industrial Revolution in Iron – Technology, Organisation and Markets, 1760-1870

Conclusion

Dramatis Personae
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Chris Evans, Ph.D. (1988) in History, University of London, teaches history at the University of Glamorgan, UK.

Göran Rydén, Ph.D. (1991) in Economic History, Uppsala University, is Professor at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University.