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		MacLeod, Christine, 1952-

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		Inventors -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
		Industrial revolution -- Great Britain.
		Inventions -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
		Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
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		Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
		Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century.

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Heroes of invention : technology, liberalism and British identity, 1750-1914 / Christine MacLeod.

by MacLeod, Christine, 1952-

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Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Inventors -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.

Industrial revolution -- Great Britain.

Inventions -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.

Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.

Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century.

Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.

Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century.

Cambridge studies in economic history

9780521873703 (hbk.)

0521873703 (hbk.)

xv, 458 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-439) and index.

1. Introduction: inventors and other heroes -- 2. The new Prometheus -- 3. The inventor's progress -- 4. The apotheosis of James Watt -- 5. Watt, inventor of the Industrial Revolution -- 6. 'What's Watt?' The radical critique -- 7. The technological pantheon -- 8. Heroes of the Pax Britannica -- 9. Debating the patent system -- 10. The workers' heroes -- 11. Maintaining the industrial spirit -- 12. Science and the disappearing inventor -- Epilogue: the Victorian legacy.

"This innovative study adopts a completely new 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 honors, 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 for present-day ideas about invention, inventors, and the history of the industrial revolution remains highly influential."--BOOK JACKET.

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