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

• Autore: Gordon Robert B (Robert Boyd), <1929->
• 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
• 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
• 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.: 9910784737803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.