It allows the reader to appreciate the importance of water power to the Scottish economy and the range of processes, both small- and large-scale, which were powered by water: grain mills, textile manufacture, paper production, sawmills, the brewing industry, coal mining, and the iron industry...The distribution and location of different types of mills and industries are described, as is the technology involved in each water-powered process.Clear and informative illustrations and maps are provided throughout. What emerges from this exhaustive and scholarly study is the sheer extent to which Scottish industry relied on water power before the Industrial Revolution, and the important role that water power played in the early stages of that revolution. The author argues that historians need to revise their estimate of the relative importance of water vis-a-vis steam power in nineteenth-century Scotland, where water power continued to be used for longer and in a wider variety of industries than in England.
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John Donald Publishers Ltd
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
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978-1-904607-28-1 (9781904607281)
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John Dwyer gained a PhD in history from the University of British Columbia. He was a faculty member of the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University and York University, Ontario, and won the Seymour Schulich Award for Teaching Excellence in 2001. He has served on the editorial board of the Adam Smith Review and is the author of a number of books including Virtuous Discourse: Sensibility and Community in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland. He is currently Professor Emeritus at York University, Ontario.
