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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21969-8fied by the events of the late summer. On 6 August 1858 Ireland and Newfoundland were in electrical communication; by 20 October 1858 telegraphic communication between Britain and her North American empire totally ceased.

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Introducing the Creditcoin Blockchainready touched upon in our specific investigations of the new technologies. These cultures, we suggest, played fundamental roles in generating, promoting and sustaining many of the engineering projects with which we have been concerned.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9306-8 those who are employed in useful labour, and that of those who are not so employed’. Reversing Thomas Hobbes’s seventeenth-century dictum that ‘wealth is power’, Smith effectively made ‘useful labour’ or ‘power’ the basis of ‘real’ wealth for nation and empire.

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in so doing these engineers also became active agents of political and economic empire. This book provides a fascinating exploration of the cultural construction of the large-scale technologies of empire.978-0-230-50704-3978-0-230-50412-7