Forging America : : Ironworkers, Adventurers, and the Industrious Revolution / / John Bezis-Selfa.

Stacks of stone preside over many bucolic and wooded landscapes in the mid-Atlantic states. Initially constructed more than two hundred years ago, they housed blast furnaces that converted rock and wood into the iron that enabled the United States to secure its national independence. By the eve of t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2003
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 14 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. MASTERED BY THE FURNACE
  • PART ONE. IRON AND EMPIRE: THE COLONIAL ERA
  • 2. MOLDING MEN
  • 3. PASSAGES THROUGH THE LEDGERS
  • 4. THE BEST POOR MAN'S COUNTRY
  • PART TWO. IRON AND NATION: THE EARLY REPUBLIC
  • 5. INDUSTRIAL SLAVERY DOMESTICATED
  • 6. MANUFACTURING FREE LABOR
  • CONCLUSION
  • ABBREVIATIONS FOR SELECTED ARCHIVES, MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS, AND SERIAL PUBLICATIONS
  • NOTES
  • INDEX