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



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Autore: Gordon Robert B (Robert Boyd), <1929-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: A landscape transformed [[electronic resource] ] : the ironmaking district of Salisbury, Connecticut / / Robert B. Gordon Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford [England] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (172 p.)
Disciplina: 338.47669141097461
Soggetto topico: Iron-works - Connecticut - Salisbury Region - History
Industrial ecology - Connecticut - Salisbury Region
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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.
Titolo autorizzato: A landscape transformed  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-756139-X
1-280-65505-4
9786610655052
0-19-535189-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910451076703321
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Serie: Oxford scholarship online.