Author: Albertine E. MetznerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Historical Geography of the Iron Industry of the United States
Author: Albertine E. MetznerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Mastering Iron
Author: Anne Kelly KnowlesPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226448592
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Veins of iron run deep in the history of America. Iron making began almost as soon as European settlement, with the establishment of the first ironworks in colonial Massachusetts. Yet it was Great Britain that became the Atlantic world’s dominant low-cost, high-volume producer of iron, a position it retained throughout the nineteenth century. It was not until after the Civil War that American iron producers began to match the scale and efficiency of the British iron industry. In Mastering Iron, Anne Kelly Knowles argues that the prolonged development of the US iron industry was largely due to geographical problems the British did not face. Pairing exhaustive manuscript research with analysis of a detailed geospatial database that she built of the industry, Knowles reconstructs the American iron industry in unprecedented depth, from locating hundreds of iron companies in their social and environmental contexts to explaining workplace culture and social relations between workers and managers. She demonstrates how ironworks in Alabama, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia struggled to replicate British technologies but, in the attempt, brought about changes in the American industry that set the stage for the subsequent age of steel. Richly illustrated with dozens of original maps and period art work, all in full color, Mastering Iron sheds new light on American ambitions and highlights the challenges a young nation faced as it grappled with its geographic conditions.
The Historical Geography of the Wealden Iron Industry
Author: Mary Cecilia DelanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iron industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States
Author: Charles Oscar PaullinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
A digitally enhanced version of this atlas was developed by the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond and is available online. Click the link above to take a look.
Americans and Their Forests
Author: Michael WilliamsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521428378
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Dr Williams begins by exploring the role of the forest in American culture: the symbols, themes, and concepts - for example, pioneer woodsman, lumberjack, wilderness - generated by contact with the vast land of trees. He considers the Indian use of the forest, describing the ways in which native tribes altered it, primarily through fire, to promote a subsistence economy.
The Geography of Iron and Steel
Author: Allan M. WilliamsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317506944
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This volume provides a survey of the world’s iron-ore resources during the 1960s and the distribution of the iron and steel industries. There are specific chapters on the UK , Western Europe, the USSR, the USA and smaller sections on Africa, Latin America and South East Asia. Particular attention is paid to the political aspects of the steel industry, for example in Post-War Germany.
The Relations of History and Geography
Author: Henry Clifford DarbyPublisher: University of Exeter Press
ISBN: 9780859896993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This set of twelve previously unpublished essays on historical geography written by Darby in the 1960s explains the basis of his ideas. The essays are divided into three quartets of studies relating to England, France and the United States.
Course of Study in History, Geography, and the Other Social Studies for the Senior and Junior High Schools
Author: District of Columbia. Board of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Iron Valley
Author: Clayton J. RuminskiPublisher: Trillium
ISBN: 9780814213216
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Development and struggle, 1802-1840 -- Brier Hill coal and "merchantable" pig iron, 1840-1856 -- Railroads, coal, iron, and war, 1856-1865 -- Expansion and depression, 1865-1879 -- The pressure of steel, 1879-1894 -- Steel, consolidation, and the fall of iron, 1894-1913
The Social Science Pamphlets, a General Course in History, Geography and Civics for Grades VII, VIII, and IX: no. 2. The mechanical conquest of America
Author: Harold Ordway RuggPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description