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Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 17501914 (Cambridge Studies in Economic History Second Seri,Used
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This innovative study adopts a distinct perspective on both the industrial revolution and nineteenthcentury British culture. It investigates why inventors rose to heroic stature and popular acclaim in Victorian Britain, attested by numerous monuments, biographies and honours, and contends there was no decline in the industrial nation's selfesteem before 1914. In a period notorious for heroworship, the veneration of inventors might seem unremarkable, were it not for their previous disparagement and the relative neglect suffered by their twentiethcentury successors. Christine MacLeod argues that inventors became figureheads of various nineteenthcentury factions, from economic and political liberals to impoverished scientists and radical artisans, who deployed their heroic reputation, not least to challenge the aristocracy's hold on power and the militaristic national identity that bolstered it. Although this was a challenge that ultimately failed, its legacy of ideas about invention, inventors, and the history of the industrial revolution remains highly influential.
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