Heroes of Invention

Heroes of Invention
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 476
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0521153824
ISBN-13 : 9780521153829
Rating : 4/5 (829 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Heroes of Invention by : Christine MacLeod

Download or read book Heroes of Invention written by Christine MacLeod and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative study adopts a distinct 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 honours, 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 of ideas about invention, inventors, and the history of the industrial revolution remains highly influential.


Heroes of Invention Related Books

Heroes of Invention
Language: en
Pages: 476
Authors: Christine MacLeod
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06-24 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This innovative study adopts a distinct perspective on both the industrial revolution and nineteenth-century British culture. It investigates why inventors rose
Providence and the Invention of American History
Language: en
Pages: 293
Authors: Sarah Koenig
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

How providential history--the conviction that God is an active agent in human history--has shaped the American historical imagination In 1847, Protestant missio
The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
Language: en
Pages: 450
Authors: Washington Irving
Categories: America
Type: BOOK - Published: 1893 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Revolutionaries
Language: en
Pages: 501
Authors: Jack Rakove
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-05-11 - Publisher: HMH

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

“[A] wide-ranging and nuanced group portrait of the Founding Fathers” by a Pulitzer Prize winner (The New Yorker). In the early 1770s, the men who invented
The Invention of George Washington
Language: en
Pages: 356
Authors: Paul K. Longmore
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This is a paper edition reprint of study originally published in 1988 by the U. of California Press. The title refers to the historical process by which Washing