| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 339 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color), music, 1 portrait |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1. Economy in Motion. Travellers' Tales 1: Celia Fiennes and Daniel Defoe in Pre-Industrial Britain -- Beginning of Coallery: George Sinclair, 'Scoto-Lothiani' -- New Reductions: Iron and 'Charking Coles' -- Steam Engine Works: Newcomen to Watt and Boulton -- Still Waters Run Shallow: Canal Mania -- Travellers' Tales 2: Louis Simond Under Tyneside, 1811 -- Part 2. Redress of Time: Carboniferous Worlds Reconstructed. Devonian Prequel: Scintillas, then Splashes of Green -- Carboniferous Tectonic Geography and Climate -- Carboniferous Equatorial Swamp Forests -- Carbon Accumulations and Mineral Additions -- Tectonic Inversion: Preservation of Coal Basins -- Part 3. Legacies: Carbon Cycling, Chimneys and Creativity. Atmospheres, Global Carbon Cycling and Glaciations -- Britain: First 'Chimney of the World' -- Chimneys of the Modern World: von Richthofen's 'Planetary Catastrophe' -- Industrial Sublime and Other Creative Legacies -- Part 4. Landscapes of the Industrial Revolution. South Wales -- England's West Country: Somerset and Gloucestershire -- North Wales -- English South Midlands -- East of the South Pennines (Yorkshire/Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire) -- West of the South Pennines (Lancashire/North Staffordshire) -- West and South Cumberland -- Northumberland and Durham -- Scottish Midlands. |
| Summary |
An illustrated explanation of the geological background to the first Industrial Revolution that originated in eighteenth-century Britain. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Geology -- History.
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Geology. |
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History. |
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Great Britain. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Leeder, M. R. (Mike R.). Measures for measure. Edinburgh : Dunedin, [2020] 1780460813 (OCoLC)1039606647 |
| ISBN |
9781780466545 (electronic book) |
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1780466544 (electronic book) |
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9781780466521 (electronic book) |
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1780466528 (electronic book) |
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9781780466538 (Kindle ebook) |
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1780466536 (Kindle ebook) |
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9781780460819 (harback) |
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1780460813 (harback) |
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