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- Title
GENTLEMEN ENGINEERS: THE MAKING OF A PROFESSION.
- Authors
Buchanan, R. A.
- Abstract
Examines the extent to which engineers achieved social assimilation into the gentry class of Great Britain during the nineteenth-century. Emergence of the engineering profession; Development of engineering clubs; Factor attributed to the characteristic conformity of engineers in political and religious affairs; Members of the upper social classes attracted to the Society of Civil Engineers and the Institution of Civil Engineers; Examples of engineering titles awarded during the period.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; ASSIMILATION (Sociology); ENGINEERS; SOCIAL conditions in Great Britain; GENTRY; NINETEENTH century; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Studies, 1983, Vol 26, Issue 4, p407
- ISSN
0042-5222
- Publication type
Literary Criticism