Iron-making Societies : : Early Industrial Development in Sweden and Russia, 1600-1900 / / ed. by Maria Ågren.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Dashkevich, Ludmila,; Florén, Anders,; Gavrilov, D. V.,; Golikova, Svetlana,; Isacson, Maths,; Minenko, Nina,; Poberezhnikov, Igor,; Rydén, Göran,; Shkerin, Vladimir,; Sjöberg, Maria,; Tomilov, Anton,; Torstendahl, Rolf,; Ustiantsev, Sergei,; Zhelezkin, Vladimir,; Ågren, Maria,
• HerausgeberIn: Ågren, Maria,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [1998]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)

The title of this book has a double meaning: on the one hand, it deals with two very different societies both of which made iron in the early modern period. On the other hand, iron "made" these societies: the needs of iron production and the resistance to these demands from local peasant c...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• Part I
• 1. Introduction: Swedish and Russian Iron-Making As Forms of Early Industry
• 2. Iron-Making in Peasant Communities
• 3. The Social Organisation of Work at Mines, Furnaces and Forges
• Part II: Integration of the Agrarian Environment in Iron Production
• 4. The Social Organisation of Peasant Work
• 5. Charcoal: Production and Transport
• 6. Households, Families and Iron-Making
• Part III: The Institutional Environment and How It Changed
• 7. Community and Property
• 8. Knowledge: Its Transfer and Reproduction in Occupations
• 9. Iron-Making Societies: The Development of the Iron Industry in Sweden and Russia, 1600–1900
• Glossary
• Notes on Contributors
• Bibliography
• Index