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Mastering Iron (Hardcover, New)
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Mastering Iron (Hardcover, New)
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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 American 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 high-lights the
challenges a young nation faced as it grappled with its geographic
conditions.
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