R.R. Angerstein's Illustrated Travel Diary, 1753-1755: Industry in England and Wales from a Swedish PerspectiveReinhold Rücker Angerstein was an eighteenth-century industrial spy. He travelled widely in Europe in the 1750s, supported by the Swedish government, gathering information about trade and emerging technology. The diary of his trip to Britain is extraordinary for its quality of observation and insight, its comparative nature and the large number of detailed illustrations. The breadth of its coverage is astounding: coal, tin and copper mines, porcelain factories, iron foundries, smithies and workshops, rolling and slitting mills, chemical factories, water works and so on. This English-language translation provides, for the first time, Angerstein's work in accessible form. It will be of immense significance to historians of the period. |
Contents
fair copy manuscript | 12 |
Volume 1 | 27 |
Arabic pagination | 60 |
Arabic pagination | 128 |
213 | 175 |
Journey 6a London to Sheffield | 188 |
Journey 6b Sheffield to Newcastle | 213 |
Journey 6c Newcastle to Carlisle | 250 |
Journey 6d Carlisle to Liverpool | 278 |
Journey 6e Liverpool to London | 308 |
London to Dover | 353 |
Source materials | 363 |
Bibliography | 369 |
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Common terms and phrases
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Baltic Iron in the Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century Chris Evans,Göran Rydén No preview available - 2007 |
Baltic Iron in the Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century Chris Evans,Göran Rydén No preview available - 2007 |