Unlocking the World: Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930 by John Darwin

Unlocking the World: Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930

John Darwin

496 pages 2020

3 editions

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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Steam power transformed our world, initiating the complex, resource-devouring industrial system the consequences of which we live with today. It revolutionized work and production, but also the ease and cost of movement over land and water. The re...

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