Awarded the Dexter Prize for Best Book in the History of Technology
"This truly outstanding book will become required reading in the
history of technology. The story of steel is important in its own
right, and Thomas Misa writes with remarkable clarity and
succinctness... The emphasis upon user-producer interactions allows
Misa to focus on the social significance of technologies and to
bring out nuances and contingencies in the development of critical
technologies and industries." -- Edwin T. Layton, Technology and
Culture
From the age of railroads through the building of the first
battleships, from the first skyscrapers to the dawning of the age
of the automobile, steelmakers proved central to American industry,
building, and transportation. In A Nation of Steel Thomas Misa
explores the complex interactions between steelmaking and the rise
of the industries that have characterized modern America. A Nation
of Steel offers a detailed and fascinating look at an industry that
has had a profound impact on American life.
"Each of Misa's six case studies is fruitful, and together they
capture the enormously diverse and complex influences on
technological change. Taken as a whole, this study constitutes a
massive and successful assault on the neo-classical paradigm...
This book will profoundly shape the way scholars understand how
technologies 'are not only socially constructed but
society-shaping.'" -- David Bensman, American Historical Review
"A brief review can not do justice to the subtlety with which
Misa links steelmaking to a larger socioeconomic environment...
Based on new information from archival and other primary sources,
this well-written, richly textured work greatlyexpands our
knowledge of American industrialization." -- W. David Lewis,
Journal of American History
"In what will surely become a standard history of steelmaking,
Misa integrates that industry's development with the industrial
growth of America in the half-century following the Civil War.
Involved in the interplay between steel production and the
production of America were such developments as the railroads'
demand for steel rails following the Civil War, the role of
urbanization and especially tall-building construction, the armor
plate requirements of the Navy, and the emergence and growth of the
automotive industry." -- Science, Technology & Society
"A splendid overview of an industry whose fortunes were
inextricably intertwined with the railroads... The protions that
treat the dynamic interrelations of the steel industry and the
railroads clearly stand as the most sophisticated treatment of this
complex topic that has yet appeared in print... An immensely
rewarding book." -- Robert C. Post, Railroad History
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