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Imperial designs: technology and empire in the 19th century

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  • Michael Adas. Machines as the measure of men: science, technology, and ideologies of western dominance.  Ithaca, NY:  Cornell University Press, 1991
  • Michelle Allen. Cleansing the body: sanitary geographies in Victorian London. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2008
  • Jeffrey A Auerbach. The Great Exhibition of 1851: a nation on display. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1999
  • KG Beauchamp. History of telegraphy. London: Institution of Electrical Engineers/Science Museum, 2001
  • Brian Bowers. Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS 1802-1875. London: Institution of Electrical Engineers / Science Museum, 2001
  • Roger Bridgman. ‘Brett, John Watkins (1805-1863)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3345, accessed 8 Aug 2013]
  • James Burnley. 'Cooke, Sir William Fothergill (1806-1879)’, rev Brian Bowers, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6192, accessed 7 Aug 2013]
  • Donald Cardwell. The Fontana history of technology. London: Fontana Press / HarperCollins, 1994
  • Agnes M Clerke. A popular history of astronomy during the nineteenth century. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1885
  • Collette Colligan and Margaret Linley (eds). Media, technology and literature in the nineteenth century. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011
  • Gillian Cookson. The Cable: wire to the new world. Stroud: The History Press, 2012
  • Crystal Palace Foundation. ‘History of the Crystal Palace’ [http://www.crystalpalacefoundation.org.uk/history/history-of-the-crystal-palace-part-1, accessed 8 Aug 2013]
  • Roger Dixon and Stefan Muthesius. Victorian architecture. London: Thames and Hudson, 1985
  • Patricia Fara. Science: a four thousand year history. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009
  • Robert Fox. ‘Acland, Sir Henry Wentworth, first baronet (1815-1900)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/62, accessed 7 Aug 2013]
  • MJ Freeman. Railways and the Victorian imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999
  • Terry Gourvish. The official history of Britain and the Channel Tunnel. London; New York: Routledge, 2006
  • Great Britain. Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851. Great Exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851: official descriptive and illustrated catalogue. London: Spicer Brothers and W Clowes and Sons, 1851
  • Christopher Hamlin. Cholera: the biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009
  • Christopher Hamlin. Public health and social justice in the age of Chadwick: Britain, 1800-1854. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998
  • Christopher Hamlin. ‘Austin, Henry (1811/12-1861),’ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/40990, accessed 7 Aug 2013]
  • Alan Harfield. ‘Macdonald, John (1759-1831),’ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17440, accessed 7 Aug 2013]
  • PM Harman. ‘Maxwell, James Clerk (1831-1879)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5624, accessed 14 Aug 2013]
  • Daniel R Headrick. The tools of empire: technology and European imperialism in the nineteenth century. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981
  • Daniel R Headrick. The tentacles of progress: technology transfer in the age of imperialism, 1850-1940. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press,1988
  • Daniel R Headrick. The invisible weapon: telecommunications and international politics 1851-1945. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991
  • Deirdre Hipwell. ‘Crystal Palace may rise from ashes’. The Times, 26 July 2013
  • Geoffrey Hubbard. Cooke and Wheatstone and the invention of the electric telegraph. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965
  • Bruce J Hunt, ‘Doing science in a global empire: cable telegraphy and electrical physics in Victorian Britain’ in Bernard Lightman (ed) Victorian science in context. Chicago: Chicago University of Chicago Press, 1997
  • Donald Hunt. The Tunnel: the story of the Channel Tunnel 1802-1994. Upton-upon-Severn: Images Publishing (Malvern), 1994
  • PA Keen. ‘The Channel Tunnel Project’, Journal of Transport History, 3:3 (1958), 132-144
  • King’s College London. ‘Charles Lyell’. [http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/history/famouspeople/charleslyell.aspx, accessed 12 Sept 2013]
  • Robert Kubicek, ‘British Expansion, Empire, and Technological Change’ in Andrew Porter (ed.) The Oxford history of the British Empire: volume III, the nineteenth century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999
  • AC Lynch. 'Bright, Sir Charles Tilston (1832-1888)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3415, accessed 7 Aug 2013]
  • Ben Marsden and Crosbie Smith. Engineering empires: a cultural history of technology in nineteenth century Britain. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
  • Richard Menke. Telegraphic realism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008
  • Iwan Rhys Morus. When physics became king. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005
  • Philip Payton. ‘Trevithick, Richard (1771-1833)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2007 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27723, accessed 29 July 2013]
  • Margaret Pelling. Cholera, fever and English medicine, 1825-1865. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978
  • LTC Rolt. Victorian engineering. London: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1970
  • Humphrey Slater and Correlli Barnett. The Channel Tunnel. London: Allan Wingate, 1957
  • SP Thompson. ‘Wheatstone, Sir Charles (1802-1875)’, rev. Brian Bowers, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29184, accessed 26 July 2013]
  • Robert Tombs and Isabelle Tombs. That sweet enemy: the French and the British from the Sun King to the present. London: William Heinemann, 2006
  • John Tully. ‘A Victorian ecological disaster: imperialism, the telegraph, and gutta-percha', Journal of World History, 20:4, (2009), 559-579
  • Deborah Weiner. Architecture and social reform in late Victorian London. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994
  • Roland Wenzlhuemer. Connecting the nineteenth century world: the telegraph and globalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013
  • Thomas Whiteside. The Tunnel under the Channel. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962
  • Keith Wilson. Channel Tunnel visions, 1850-1945: dreams and nightmares. London; Rio Grande, Ohio: Hambledon Press, 1994
  • Anthony S Wohl. Endangered lives: public health in Victorian Britain. London: Methuen, 1983
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