Transport and the industrial city: Manchester and the canal age, 1750-1850

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...

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1. Verfasser:	Maw, Peter
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Canals Europe General history of Europe England & Wales Great Britain HISTORY Industrial revolution Industrial revolution-England-Manchester Industrial sites Industrialization-England-Manchester Urban transportation-England-Manchester Waterways
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