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Woodworking has been one of the most important technologies from the earliest times, and this text provides a collection of papers which explore the history of the subject from a variety of perspectives. The text also provides a review of work in the field.
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Woodworking has been one of the most important technologies from the earliest times, and this text provides a collection of papers which explore the history of the subject from a variety of perspectives. The text also provides a review of work in the field.
Zusatztext
'The aim of Ashgate's twelve volume series is to bring together collections of important papers on particular topics from scholarly journals, conference proceedings and other hard-to-access sources. This is a wholly laudable objective. Some of the papers in the volume under review [The Civil Engineering of Canals and Railways before 1850] cannot be found even in abundantly-resourced academic libraries. The series opens up, directly or indirectly, debates over the nature of historical evidence which arise from the profoundly different approaches to the past of historians of technology, whose works are principally represented in these volumes, industrial archaeologists and social and economic historians.' Industrial Archaeology Review, Vol. XXI, No. 1
