Transport and the Industrial City. Manchester and the canal age, 1750-1850

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Scholarly account offering 'the first detailed regional history of canals, their trade and their economic impact ...'. Explores canal transport in Manchester offering a detailed account of the trade and impact of canals in the Industrial Revolution period placing emphasis on how canals were used for movement of goods locally and nationally and their impact on Manchester's industrial and urban development. Also touches on related infrastructure, roads, carriers, basins, factories, etc. Has sections: 'Manchester canals - trade, commodities and markerts'; 'Competition and complementarity - canals, roads and railways in Manchester'; 'Bringing goods to market - carriers in the canal age'; 'On the waterfront - basins, warehouses and wharves in canal age Manchester'; 'The waterfront and the factory'; 'canals, transport and the Industrial Revolution in Manchester'. Much in particular about Bridgewater Canal, Mersey & Irwell Navigation and Rochdale Canal