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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784737803321

Autore

Gordon Robert B (Robert Boyd), <1929->

Titolo

A landscape transformed [[electronic resource] ] : the ironmaking district of Salisbury, Connecticut / / Robert B. Gordon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford [England] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001

ISBN

0-19-756139-X

1-280-65505-4

9786610655052

0-19-535189-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (172 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

338.47669141097461

Soggetti

Iron-works - Connecticut - Salisbury Region - History

Industrial ecology - Connecticut - Salisbury Region

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-152) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; ONE: Industrial Ecology in Historical Perspective; TWO: Resources Discovered; THREE: Independent Artisans; FOUR: Merchant Capitalists; FIVE: Artisan-Entrepreneurs; SIX: Environment, Technology, and Community in Salisbury; SEVEN: The Challenge of New Markets and Techniques; EIGHT: Retreat from Progress; NINE: A Landscape Transformed; TEN: Community, Culture, and Industrial Ecology; APPENDIX ONE: Ironworks Inventory; APPENDIX TWO: Ironmaking and Steelmaking Techniques; APPENDIX THREE: Units and Conversion Factors; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Examining the industrial ecology of 200 years of ironmaking with renewal energy resources in northwestern Connecticut, this text 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.