
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
King's College London
Conferences and Events
Technology in the Industrial Revolution
A Public lecture by Dr. Barbara Hahn, Texas Tech University
1st June 2020
The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at King's College
London and the Department of Economic History at the London School of
Economics are pleased to announce an upcoming public lecture. Dr. Barbara
Hahn (Texas Tech University) will speak on 'Technology in the Industrial
Revolution', the subject of her recently published book. An abstract for the
talk is copied below, and more about the book can be found here:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/technology-in-the-industrial-revolution/949B7F585E30055E0CF08828C2F50C0B
The lecture will be held on the LSE campus, in the Alumni Theatre
(New Academic Building, on Kingsway). It will begin at 18:00 aiming
to end around 19:30. Dr Hahn's talk will be followed by a response
from Professor Jane Humphries and a subsequent question period.
The event is first come first served.
Technology in the Industrial Revolution:
Technological change is about more than inventions. Barbara Hahn's concise
new history of the Industrial Revolution places the eighteenth-century British
textile industry in global context, locating its causes in government protection,
global competition, and colonialism. Inventions from spinning jennies to steam
engines came to define an age that culminated in the acceleration of the fashion
cycle, the intensification in demand and supply of raw materials and the rise of a
plantation system that would reconfigure world history in favor of British (and
European) global domination. Intended for the classroom, this accessible analysis
of the classic case of rapid and revolutionary technological change takes readers
from the north of England to slavery, cotton plantations, the Anglo-Indian trade
and beyond – placing technological change at the center of world history.
