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768 pages • first pub 2010 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780374290023
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West’s ris...
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768 pages • first pub 2010 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780374290023
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West’s ris...