Transport and the Industrial City - Manchester and the Canal Age, 1750-1850

Informationen zum Autor Peter Maw is Senior Lecturer in History at Northumbria University Klappentext Focusing on Manchester, this book shows that canals were at the heart of the self-styled Cottonopolis. Not only did canals move the key commodities of Manchester's industrial revolution -coal, corn, and cotton - but canal banks also provided the key sites for the factories that made Manchester the 'shock city' of the early Victorian age. Zusammenfassung Focusing on Manchester, this book shows that canals were at the heart of the self-styled Cottonopolis. Not only did canals move the key commodities of Manchester’s industrial revolution –coal, corn, and cotton – but canal banks also provided the key sites for the factories that made Manchester the ‘shock city’ of the early Victorian age. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction2. Manchester canals: Trade, commodities, and markets 3. Competition and complementarity: Canals, roads and rails in Manchester 4. Bringing goods to market: Carriers in the canal age 5. On the waterfront: Basins, warehouses and wharves in canal-age Manchester6. The waterfront and the factory 7. Canals, transport, and the industrial revolution in Manchester 8. Conclusion Sources and bibliography Index

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Peter Maw is Senior Lecturer in History at Northumbria University

Product details

• Authors: Peter Maw, MAW PETER
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2013
• EAN: 9780719083600
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8360-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Ships; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches