Название: Mastering Iron: The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800-1868
Автор: Anne Kelly Knowles
Издательство: University of Chicago Press
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 336
Размер: 17,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Veins 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.