Transport and the Industrial City: Manchester and the Canal Age, 17501850

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Focusing on Manchester, this book shows that canals were at the heart of the self-styled Cottonopolis. Not only did canals move the key commodities of Manchester's industrial revolution -coal, corn, and cotton - but canal banks also provided the key sites for the factories that made Manchester the 'shock city' of the early Victorian age. -- .

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This book is a major achievement, and a welcome and important contribution to the published literature on Manchester and on the Industrial Revolution. It is well structured, packed with a wealth of factual detail but with a powerful theoretical base, and (no mean achievement for a work on economic history) fluent, jargon-free, clearly written and eminently readable.'

Maw's work [...] represents a very important and substantial study of the impact of canal transportation on the first industrial city. It not only answers many questions about the commercial operation of canals and their impact on urban form, but also suggests some new and important avenues for research.

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Peter Maw is Senior Lecturer in History at Northumbria University