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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.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Humanities History Regional & national history

• Plný název: Heroes of Invention
• Podnázev: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750-1914
• Autor: Christine MacLeod
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 476
• EAN: 9780521153829
• ISBN: 0521153824
• ID: 02024059
• Nakladatelství: Cambridge University Press
• Hmotnost: 722 g
• Rozměry: 230 × 152 × 29 mm
• Datum vydání: 24. June 2010

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