This innovative study adopts a distinct perspective on both the industrial revolution and nineteenth-century British culture. It investigates why inventors rose to heroic stature and popular acclaim in Victorian Britain, attested by numerous monuments, biographies and honours, and contends there was no decline in the industrial nation's self-esteem before 1914. In a period notorious for hero-worship, the veneration of inventors might seem unremarkable, were it not for their previous disparagement and the relative neglect suffered by their twentieth-century successors. Christine MacLeod argues that inventors became figureheads of various nineteenth-century factions, from economic and political liberals to impoverished scientists and radical artisans, who deployed their heroic reputation, not least to challenge the aristocracy's hold on power and the militaristic national identity that bolstered it. Although this was a challenge that ultimately failed, its legacy of ideas about invention, inventors, and the history of the industrial revolution remains highly influential.
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"...presents numerous insights that will fascinate and enlighten those with more encompassing interests in social attitudes, perceptions and representations of techonology and culture, during the period of industrialization in Britain." -B. Zorina Khan, EH.NET
"It is well researched and fluently written." -Ron Harris, American Historical Review
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Journal of Modern History, Jordanna Bailkin, University of Washington
"It is well researched and fluently written." -Ron Harris, American Historical Review
"...an impressively judicious and learned book."
Journal of Modern History, Jordanna Bailkin, University of Washington
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This innovative study investigates why inventors rose to heroic stature and popular acclaim in Victorian Britain. Christine MacLeod argues that inventors became figureheads of various nineteenth-century factions who deployed their heroic reputation, not least to challenge the aristocracy's hold on power and the militaristic national identity that bolstered it.
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The Times, Heroes of Invention, James Watt, Westminster Abbey, Cambridge University Press, The Builder, George Stephenson, Manchester University Press, Royal Society, Oxford University Press, Hope Mason, Robert Stephenson, Richard Trevithick, The Illustrated London News, The Scotsman, Samuel Smiles, New York, Heroes of the Pax Britannica, Great Exhibition, Samuel Crompton, Ann Pethers, Great Britain, Mechanic's Magazine, Chancery Lane, Clarendon Press Browse Sample Pages:
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