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Measures for Measure Geology and the Industrial Revolution.
An illustrated explanation of the geological background to the first Industrial Revolution that originated in eighteenth-century Britain.
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| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Dunedin Academic Press,
2020.
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Perface
- Part 1 Economy in Motion
- 1 Travellers' Tales 1: Celia Fiennes and Daniel Defoe in Pre-Industrial Britain
- 2 Beginning of Coallery: George Sinclair, 'Scoto-Lothiani'
- 3 New Reductions: Iron and 'Charking Coles'
- 4 Steam Engine Works: Newcomen to Watt and Boulton
- 5 Still Waters Run Shallow: Canal Mania
- 6 Travellers' Tales 2: Louis Simond Under Tyneside, 1811
- Part 2 Redress of Time: Carboniferous Worlds Reconstructed
- 7 Devonian Prequel: Scintillas, then Splashes of Green
- 8 Carboniferous Tectonic Geography and Climate
- 9 Carboniferous Equatorial Swamp Forests
- 10 Carbon Accumulations and Mineral Additions
- 11 Tectonic Inversion: Preservation of Coal Basins
- Part 3 Legacies: Carbon Cycling, Chimneys and Creativity
- 12 Atmospheres, Global Carbon Cycling and Glaciations
- 13 Britain: First 'Chimney of the World'
- 14 Chimneys of the Modern World: von Richthofen's 'Planetary Catastrophe'
- 15 Industrial Sublime and Other Creative Legacies
- Part 4 Landscapes of the Industrial Revolution
- 16 South Wales
- 17 England's West Country: Somerset and Gloucestershire
- 18 North Wales
- 19 English South Midlands
- 20 East of the South Pennines (Yorkshire/Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire)
- 21 West of the South Pennines (Lancashire/North Staffordshire)
- 22 West and South Cumberland
- 23 Northumberland and Durham
- 24 Scottish Midlands
- Notes and Sources
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index
- Copyright