Machinery claimed more than labor in Victorian Britain
What industrial empire demanded from those who stoked its fires
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Beschreibung
The engine room was hot and dark and the men who worked there never saw the sky.
The man who stoked the boiler never saw the queen. Yet his hands moved the empire. This is not a story of thrones and parliaments but of the people who made the Victorian age possible—the engineers, the clerks, the housemaids, the missionaries who carried Bibles and rifles to continents they were told to civilize.
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Natalie Harrington
Writes intellectual nonfiction about creativity, literature, and cultural memory.
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Victorian era society British Empire history Industrial Revolution technology 19th century Britain steam engine age Victorian class system empire and industry