
Industry and labor created Britain's canal network, detailing engineers, industrialists, and the navvies who transformed transport and spurred the industrial revolution for readers seeking historical construction and social insight.
Canal Builders is a classic...

Canal Builders is a classic history book for anyone interested in the development of Britain's canal system. The book, which was first published in the 1970s, is now republished here in a new fifth edition. It takes the reader from the middle of the eighteenth century, to the...