Canals in a Changing Britain: Construction, Culture, and Environment, 1760-1968

Canals in a Changing Britain: Construction, Culture, and Environment, 1760–1968 assesses canals as a major technological system re—shaping Britons' relationship with their landscape and environment for over 200 years. It offers a sustained narrative addressing: canal construction in the late eighteenth century, living and working communities alongside canals in the nineteenth century, canals' relationship to concerns regarding de—industrialization in the early twentieth century and canals a...