Description: Places the British Industrial Revolution in global context, providing a fresh perspective on the relationship between technology and society.
Brief description: Barbara Hahn is a prize-winning author in business history and the history of technology. Her publications include Plantation Kingdom: The South and Its Global Commodities (2016), which she co-authored. She is Associate Professor of History at Texas Tech University and was the associate editor of the journal Technology and Culture.
Review Quotes: '... expansive ... edifying ... develops a highly nuanced view that encompasses innovation, politics, economics, and the transnational context in which this transformative process occurred.' B. C. Odom, Choice