Scientific Culture and Urbanisation in Industrialising Britain
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knowledge transfer history
Marginal Men
mechanics institutes research
Mental Capital
nineteenth century Britain
public science education
science and society in industrial revolution
social class mobility
urban scientific networks
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- ISBN 9780860786870
- Weight: 780g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Dec 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Ian Inkster’s intent in these studies is to move beyond the high culture and expertise of science towards the construction of the culture of urban communities. The work draws on a mass of detailed research and focuses on Britain's social and cultural advantages over other industrialising nations in the years prior to the Great Exhibition of 1851, an advantage which was not created by any single decision, nor by any explicit investment effect. Out of urban culture emerged a public sphere and an information system within which class divisions were abrogated; at the same time the relations between information and technique became complex and decidedly non-linear. So was created a social asset drawn upon by business interests, technicians, tinkerers and inventors throughout the period, and for some considerable time beyond it. Industrial Britain was made from diverse materials, amongst which were those fabricated in the course of cultural dissent and social ambition.
Ian Inkster, Faculty of Humanities, Nottingham Trent University, UK
