The Texture of Industry

An Archaeological View of the Industrialization of North America

Robert B. Gordon, Patrick M. Malone (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

464 Seiten

1997
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-511141-5 (ISBN)

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While historians have given ample attention to stories of entrepreneurship, invention, and labor conflict, they have told us little about actual work-places and how people worked. Workers seldom wrote about their daily employment. However, they did leave behind their tools, products, shops, and factories as well as the surrounding industrial landscapes and communities. In this book, Gordon and Malone look at the industrialization of North America fro the perspective of the industrial archaeologist. Using material evidence from such varied sites as Indian steatite quarries, automobile plants, and coal mines, they examine manufacturing technology, transportation systems, and the effects of industrialization on the land. Their research greatly expands our understanding of industry and focuses attention on the contributions of anonymous artisans whose skills shaped our industrial heritage.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.2.1997
Zusatzinfo	numerous halftones, line figures, tables
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	256 x 179 mm
Gewicht	811 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Technik
ISBN-10	0-19-511141-9 / 0195111419
ISBN-13	978-0-19-511141-5 / 9780195111415
Zustand	Neuware