TY - BOOK AU - Evans,Chris AU - Rydén,Göran TI - Baltic iron in the Atlantic world in the eighteenth century T2 - Brill eBook titles 2007 SN - 9789047421474 AV - HD9521.5 .E93 2007 U1 - 382/.42309485 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Metaalindustrie KW - gtt KW - Iron industry and trade KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Russia KW - Sweden KW - Atlantisch gebied KW - Baltische landen N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-344) and index; Preliminary Materials; C. Evans and G. Rydén --; Chapter One. The Warehouse Of The World. Commerce And Production In The Early Modern Atlantic World; C. Evans and G. Rydén --; Chapter Two. The Topography Of The Early Modern Iron Trade, C. 1730; C. Evans and G. Rydén --; Chapter Three. The International Iron Trade At A Crossroads: Swedish And British Debates, 1730–1760; C. Evans and G. Rydén --; Chapter Four. An Industrial Revolution In Iron—Technology, Organisation And Markets, 1760–1870; C. Evans and G. Rydén --; Conclusion; C. Evans and G. Rydén --; Dramatis Personae; C. Evans and G. Rydén --; Glossary; C. Evans and G. Rydén --; Bibliography; C. Evans and G. Rydén --; Index; C. Evans and G. Rydén; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - The eighteenth century is often viewed as the heroic age of the British iron industry - a time of triumphant technological progress. In fact, it was an age of thwarted ambition, when the take-up of new technologies proved frustratingly slow. The eighteenth century was more accurately the age of Baltic iron. Swedish and Russian iron surged onto the British market, meeting the demand that British ironmasters could not satisfy. This was of epochal importance: Swedish iron allowed British steel makers and hardware manufacturers to dominate Atlantic markets. In turn, the rhythms of Atlantic commerce resounded through peasant communities in Sweden. Baltic iron in the Atlantic world captures this moment. In doing so it internationalises Swedish history in a radical way and presses an oceanic perspective on the traditionally insular view of the rise of heavy industry in Britain UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004161535.i-360 ER -