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Hostile Money
Wilson, Paul
History Press (2019)
- EAN: 9780750990790
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha de edición: 2019
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MONEY has the power to make nations and fuel wars. It is both the subject of diplomacy and the tool of those seeking to overthrow hostile regimes at home and abroad. Germany's hyperinflation following the ...
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The Rise and Fall of British Shipbuilding
Burton, Anthony
History Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780752489698
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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From modest beginnings, Britain rose throughout the nineteenth century to become the greatest shipbuilding nation in the world, yet by the end of the following century the British merchant fleet ranked just 38 in the ...
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Matthew Boulton "Industry's Great Innovator"
Burton, Anthony
History Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780752462929
- Páginas: 192
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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Matthew Boulton, of the famous Boulton & Watt steam engine partnership, was an eighteenth-century designer and inventor. Before he partnered up with James Watt he was a successful industrialist manufacturing a range of silver and ...
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History's Most Dangerous Jobs Navvies
Burton, Anthony
History Press (2012)
- EAN: 9780752479613
- Páginas: 160
- Fecha de edición: 2012
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This is the story of the men who built Britain's canals and railways - not the engineers and the administrators but the ones who provided the brawn and muscle. There had never been a workforce ...
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A Lady of Cotton "Hannah Greg, Mistress of Quarry Bank Mill"
Sekers, David
History Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780752490083
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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In 1789 Hannah Lightbody, a well-educated and intelligent young woman of means, married Samuel Greg and found herself at the centre of his cotton empire in the industrial heart of England. It was a man's ...
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London's Industrial Heritage
Marshall, Geoff
History Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780752487281
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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Did you know that apart from Lancashire, the greatest concentration of Boulton & Watt steam engines was in London, demonstrating the enormous and often overlooked significance of London as an industrial centre? The story behind ...
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The Roman Iron Industry in Britain
Sim, David
History Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780752468655
- Páginas: 159
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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The invasion of AD 43 began the Romans' settlement of Britain. The Romans brought with them a level of expertise that raised iron production in Britain from small localised sites to an enormous industry. Rome ...
