The industrial experience has touched deeply on the values, art and relation to the land, of the people's of North America. Yet the presentation of our industrial heritage, the authors of the proposed book argue, has been largely framed in the narrow context of inventors or in the social conflict between labour and capital - and fails to reveal ...
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. ...
This book examines the industrial ecology of 200 years of ironmaking with renewal energy resources in northwestern Connecticut. It focuses on the cultural context of people's decisions about technology and the environment, and the gradual transition they effected in their land from industrial landscape to pastoral countryside.
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