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Loading... Sloss Furnaces and the rise of the Birmingham District : an industrial epic (1994)| 19 | None | 1,197,724 | 
(2) | 1 | This pathbreaking book tells the dramatic story of a unique manufacturing complex and the city that it helped to create. The events recounted and interpreted by W. David Lewis are of more than local or regional significance. The rise of Sloss furnaces and Birmingham epitomized the emergence of the United States as the world's foremost economic power. Similarly, the closing of a once-profitable ironmaking installation amid social and technological changes that convulsed Birmingham nine decades after the city's founding typified challenges that were facing America at the dawn of the… (more) |
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Within the last half century the South has gone through a series of political, social, and industrial upheavals and readjustments; and yet the South of today is the historical product of the South of old, with much the same conditions and problems.
Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
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for Mel Kranzberg, / and in loving memory of Randy Lawrence | |
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▾Book descriptions This pathbreaking book tells the dramatic story of a unique manufacturing complex and the city that it helped to create. The events recounted and interpreted by W. David Lewis are of more than local or regional significance. The rise of Sloss furnaces and Birmingham epitomized the emergence of the United States as the world's foremost economic power. Similarly, the closing of a once-profitable ironmaking installation amid social and technological changes that convulsed Birmingham nine decades after the city's founding typified challenges that were facing America at the dawn of the ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description |
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