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100	1		_aKnowles, Anne Kelly.
245	1	0	_aMastering iron : _bthe struggle to modernize an American industry, 1800-1868 / _cAnne Kelly Knowles ; cartography by Chester Harvey.
264		1	_aChicago : _bThe University of Chicago Press, _c[2013]
300			_a334 pages : _bcolor illustrations, color maps ; _c26 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIron in America -- Mapping the iron industry -- The worlds of ironworkers -- High hopes and failure -- The elements of success -- Iron for the Civil War -- Conclusion: American iron.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
520			_aVeins of iron run deep in the history of America. Iron making began almost as soon as European settlement, with the establishment of the first ironworks in colonial Massachusetts. Yet it was Great Britain that became the Atlantic world's dominant low-cost, high-volume producer of iron, a position it retained throughout the nineteenth century. It was not until after the Civil War that American iron producers began to match the scale and efficiency of the British iron industry. In Mastering Iron, Anne Kelly Knowles argues that the prolonged development of the US iron industry was largely due to geographical problems the British did not face. Pairing exhaustive manuscript research with analysis of a detailed geospatial database that she built of the industry, Knowles reconstructs the American iron industry in unprecedented depth, from locating hundreds of iron companies in their social and environmental contexts to explaining workplace culture and social relations between workers and managers. She demonstrates how ironworks in Alabama, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia struggled to replicate British technologies but, in the attempt, brought about changes in the American industry that set the stage for the subsequent age of steel. Richly illustrated with dozens of original maps and period art work, all in full color, Mastering Iron sheds new light on American ambitions and highlights the challenges a young nation faced as it grappled with its geographic conditions.
650		0	_aIron industry and trade _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		7	_aIron industry and trade. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00979219
651		7	_aUnited States. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204155
650		7	_aEisen- und Stahlindustrie. _2gnd
650		7	_aModernisierung. _2gnd
651		7	_aUSA. _2gnd
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
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