Maw Transport and the industrial city

Manchester and the canal age, 1750–1850
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3047-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Web PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Focusing on Manchester, this book 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maw, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Technische Wissenschaften Verkehrstechnik | Transportgewerbe Schiffbau, Seeverkehr
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Maw Peter:
Peter Maw is Senior Lecturer in History at Northumbria UniversityPeter Maw is Senior Lecturer in History at Northumbria University