TY - BOOK ID - 78339752 TI - Industrial enlightenment PY - 2008 SN - 1526130319 9781526130310 9780719077708 0719077702 9780719089121 0719089123 9780719089121 PB - Manchester, UK New York New York Manchester University Press Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Science and industry KW - Industrial revolution KW - Industry and science KW - Industries KW - Revolution, Industrial KW - Economic history KW - Social history KW - History. KW - Birmingham (England) KW - Birmingham, Eng. KW - Birmingham (West Midlands, England) KW - City and Borough of Birmingham (England) KW - Borough of Birmingham (England) KW - History KW - ReĢvolution industrielle KW - Sciences et industrie KW - Birmingham (Angleterre) KW - Histoire KW - Birmingham. KW - French Revolution. KW - Industrial Enlightenment. KW - Napoleonic Wars. KW - Soho. KW - West Midlands. KW - eighteenth-century Britain. KW - knowledge economy. KW - protestant Nonconformity. KW - religious complexion. KW - science cultures. KW - technological process. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78339752 AB - Industrial Enlightenment explores the transition through which England passed between 1760 and 1820 on the way to becoming the world's first industrialised nation. In drawing attention to the important role played by scientific knowledge, it focuses on a dimension of this transition which is often overlooked by historians. The book argues that in certain favoured regions, England underwent a process whereby useful knowledge was fused with technological 'know how' to produce the condition described here as Industrial Enlightenment. At the forefront of the process were the natural philosophers who entered into a close and productive relationship with technologists and entrepreneurs. Much of the evidence for this study is drawn from the extraordinary archival record of the activities of Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) and his Soho Manufactory. The book will appeal to those keen to explore the dynamics of change in eighteenth-century England, and to those with a broad interest in the cultural history of science and technology. ER -