Baltic iron in the Atlantic world in the eighteenth century
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Baltic iron in the Atlantic world in the eighteenth century
（The Atlantic world : Europe, Africa and the Americas, 1500-1830 / editors, Wim Klooster, Benjamin Schmidt, v. 13）
Brill, 2007
- : hdk : alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-344) and index
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Description
The eighteenth century is often viewed as the heroic age of the British iron industry - a time of triumphant technological progress. In fact, it was an age of thwarted ambition, when the take-up of new technologies proved frustratingly slow. The eighteenth century was more accurately the age of Baltic iron. Swedish and Russian iron surged onto the British market, meeting the demand that British ironmasters could not satisfy. This was of epochal importance: Swedish iron allowed British steel makers and hardware manufacturers to dominate Atlantic markets. In turn, the rhythms of Atlantic commerce resounded through peasant communities in Sweden. Baltic iron in the Atlantic world captures this moment. In doing so it internationalises Swedish history in a radical way and presses an oceanic perspective on the traditionally insular view of the rise of heavy industry in Britain.
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Chapter One. The Warehouse of the World. Commerce and Production in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Chapter Two. The Topography of the Early Modern Iron Trade, c.1730
Chapter Three. The International Iron Trade at a Crossroads: Swedish and British Debates, 1730-1760
Chapter Four. An Industrial Revolution in Iron - Technology, Organisation and Markets, 1760-1870
Conclusion
Dramatis Personae
Glossary
Bibliography
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