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Measures for Measure: Geology and the Industrial Revolution - Hardcover

Leeder, Mike

 
9781780460819: Measures for Measure: Geology and the Industrial Revolution
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1780460813 ISBN 13: 9781780460819
Verlag: Liverpool University Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Measures for Measure features once greatly-disturbed landscapes – now largely reclaimed, physically at least, by post-industrial activity. Yet the surviving machines, buildings and housing of the original Industrial Revolution, founded mostly upon Coal Measures strata, still loom large over many parts of Britain. They do so nowadays in the family-friendly and informative context of industrial museums, reconstructed industrial settlements, preserved landscapes and historic townscapes. Our society and its creative core of literature, visual arts and architecture were profoundly affected by the whole process. The British Carboniferous legacy for wider humankind was profound and permanent, more so with the realisation over the last 60 or so years that the emission of carbon dioxide during human utilisation of fossil fuels has caused global warming – with all its many unintended consequences.Coal, iron ore and other metallic ores and materials had been extracted from Carboniferous strata and traded for over five hundred years before the Industrial Revolution, notably since thirteenth century in the 'London Trade' of coal from Tyneside.

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Mike Leeder is Emeritus Professor at UEA Norwich and a former Head of Earth Sciences at Leeds University. Outside his geological comfort zone he has, since his schooldays, taken a keen interest in history, literature and politics, all topics covered in the present book. He is, with Joy Lawlor, co-author of GeoBritannica, the story of British geological and landscape evolution and the related creativity of its peoples since Neolithic times.

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Verlag
Liverpool University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1780460813
ISBN 13 
9781780460819
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
339
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