Joyce Brown M.M. Chrimes A.W. Skempton N. A. F. Smith and R.J.M. Sutherland
Ashgate
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2001
From dams to cathedrals from water supply to transport systems and from land drainage to the design and construction of ever larger and more monumental buildings the impact of civil engineering on human history has been immense. This series sets out to examine key aspects of its history from antiquity to the early 20th century.Each volume focuses on a particular topic edited by an expert in that field and opens with a substantial new introduction. They reprint a selection of papers which have proved of particular importance and which exemplify the current state of knowledge and the historiography. The series constitutes an authoritative reference library not just for those interested in the history of civil engineering but also those studying economic history and the history of science and above all of architecture.
Ashgate
Hardback
0
2001
From dams to cathedrals from water supply to transport systems and from land drainage to the design and construction of ever larger and more monumental buildings the impact of civil engineering on human history has been immense. This series sets out to examine key aspects of its history from antiquity to the early 20th century.Each volume focuses on a particular topic edited by an expert in that field and opens with a substantial new introduction. They reprint a selection of papers which have proved of particular importance and which exemplify the current state of knowledge and the historiography. The series constitutes an authoritative reference library not just for those interested in the history of civil engineering but also those studying economic history and the history of science and above all of architecture.