Mastering Iron: The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800�1868 by Anne Kelly Knowles (review)

• Autores: Stephen H. Cutcliffe
• Localización: Technology and Culture, ISSN-e 1097-3729, Vol. 54, Nº. 4, 2013, págs. 975-976
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Anne Kelly Knowles�s geographically based analysis of the antebellum American iron industry is not a detailed technological history nor an economic or labor history of the iron industry, but rather a richly nuanced relational understanding of iron manufacturing in terms of resources, markets, transportation, and workers. So, not only does manufactory type and size matter, but so too do ore quality and availability, topography and geographic distance, and skilled workforce makeup, all nicely charted through a series of GIS (geographic information systems)�based maps and further illustrated with a number of more traditional historical case studies.