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Author Evans, Chris, 1961-

Title Baltic iron in the Atlantic world in the eighteenth century / by Chris Evans, Göran Rydén.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

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Description 1 electronic resource (xiii, [16] pages of plates, 359 pages ).
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series The Atlantic world ; v. 13
The Atlantic world ; v. 13.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-344) and index.
Contents The warehouse of the world : commerce and production in the early modern Atlantic world -- The topography of the early modern iron trade, c. 1730 -- The international iron trade at a crossroads : Swedish and British debates, 1730-1760 -- An industrial revolution in iron: technology, organisation and markets, 1760-1870.
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Summary The eighteenth century is often viewed as the heroic age of the British iron industry - a time of triumphant technological progress. In fact, it was an age of thwarted ambition, when the take-up of new technologies proved frustratingly slow. The eighteenth century was more accurately the age of Baltic iron. Swedish and Russian iron surged onto the British market, meeting the demand that British ironmasters could not satisfy. This was of epochal importance: Swedish iron allowed British steel makers and hardware manufacturers to dominate Atlantic markets. In turn, the rhythms of Atlantic commerce resounded through peasant communities in Sweden. Baltic iron in the Atlantic world captures this moment. In doing so it internationalises Swedish history in a radical way and presses an oceanic perspective on the traditionally insular view of the rise of heavy industry in Britain.
Language English.
Subject Iron industry and trade -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Iron industry and trade -- Russia -- History -- 18th century.
Iron industry and trade -- Sweden -- History -- 18th century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Marketing.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Trade & Tariffs.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Exports & Imports.
HISTORY / Europe / General
Iron industry and trade
Great Britain https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP
Russia
Sweden https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRmFKpvRPQrQfjc7kBGB
Eisenhandel
Eisenproduktion
Baltikum
Metaalindustrie.
Baltische landen.
Atlantisch gebied.
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Geschichte 1700-1800.
Genre/Form History
Added Author Rydén, Göran.
Other Form: Print version: Baltic iron in the Atlantic world in the eighteenth century Leiden ; Brill, 2007. (DLC) 2007035853
ISBN 9004161538 hardback : alk. paper
9789004161535 hardback : alk. paper
9789047421474 (electronic bk.)
9047421477 (electronic bk.)
1281936367
9781281936363
9786611936365
661193636X
Standard No. 10.1163/ej.9789004161535.i-360 doi
DKDLA 820120-katalog:999927281205765
NZ1 14546406
NLGGC 317140205
DEBSZ 430781091
DEBSZ 422053163
DEBBG BV044139490
DEBBG BV043086138
AU@ 000051349644

 
    
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