Author: J. Peter LesleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forge shops
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
The Iron Manufacturer's Guide to the Furnaces, Forges and Rolling Mills of the United States
Author: J. Peter LesleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1470
Book Description
The Iron Manufacturer's Guide to the Furnaces, Forges and Rolling Mills of the United States; with Discussions of Iron, Etc
Author: Peter LESLEYBonds of Womanhood
Author: Susanna DelfinoPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081315488X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Class, race, and gender collide in this insightful examination of the life of Susanna (Susan) Preston Shelby Grigsby (1830–1891)—a white plantation mistress and slaveholder who struggled to participate in the economic modernization of antebellum Kentucky. Drawing on Grigsby's correspondence, author Susanna Delfino uses Grigsby's story to explore the complex cultural and social issues at play in the state's economy before, during, and after the Civil War. Delfino demonstrates that Grigsby engaged in certain kinds of antislavery activism, such as hiring white servants as a way of conveying her support for free labor and avoiding ever selling a slave. Despite her beliefs, however, Grigsby failed to hold to her moral compass when faced with her husband's patriarchal authority or when she experienced serious economic trouble. This compelling study not only illuminates how white women participated in the South's nineteenth-century economy, but also offers new perspectives on their complicity in slavery.
The Iron Manufacturer's Guide to the Furnaces, Forges and Rolling Mills of the United States, with Discussions of Iron as a Chemical Element, an American Ore, and a Manufactured Article, in Commerce and in History
Author: J. Peter LesleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iron industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Upland Archeology in the East
Author: Michael B. BarberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Appalachian Region, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Gaston County, North Carolina, in the Civil War
Author: Robert C. CarpenterPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476623309
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Civil War histories typically center on the deeds of generals and sweeping depictions of battle. This unique study of one Southern county's war experience tells of ordinary soldiers and their wives, mothers and children, slaves, farmers, merchants, Unionists and deserters--through an examination of tax records. The recently discovered 1863 Gaston County, North Carolina, tax list provides a detailed economic and social picture of a war-weary community, recording what taxpayers owned, cataloging slaves by name, age and monetary value, and assessing luxury items. Contemporary diaries, letters and other previously unpublished documents complete the picture, describing cotton mill operations, the lives of slaves, political disagreements, rationales for soldiers' enlistments and desertions, and economic struggles on the home front.
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Author: Edward K. MullerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania
Author: Nancy S. SheddPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
American Iron, 1607-1900
Author: Robert B. GordonPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421435020
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
Winner of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award for General Engineering from the Association of American Publishers Originally published in 1996. By applying their abundant natural resources to ironmaking early in the eighteenth century, Americans soon made themselves felt in world markets. After the Revolution, ironmakers supplied the materials necessary to the building of American industry, pushing the fuel efficiency and productivity of their furnaces far ahead of their European rivals. In American Iron, 1607-1900, Robert B. Gordon draws on recent archaeological findings as well as archival research to present an ambitious, comprehensive survey of iron technology in America from the colonial period to the industry's demise at about the turn of the twentieth century. Closely examining the techniques—the "hows"—of ironmaking in its various forms, Gordon offers new interpretations of labor, innovation, and product quality in ironmaking, along with references to the industry's environmental consequences. He establishes the high level of skills required to ensure efficient and safe operation of furnaces and to improve the quality of iron product. By mastering founding, fining, puddling, or bloom smelting, ironworkers gained a degree of control over their lives not easily attained by others.
![The Lathe & Its Uses ... Second Edition. [By James Lukin.] PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/s9ip5_CdhBkC?fife=w80-h100)
Author: James LUKIN