A Landscape Transformed: The Ironmaking District of Salisbury, ConnecticutOxford University Press, 2000 M12 14 - 176 páginas This book examines the industrial ecology of 200 years of ironmaking with renewal energy resources in northwestern Connecticut. It focuses on the cultural context of people's decisions about technology and the environment, and the gradual transition they effected in their land from industrial landscape to pastoral countryside. |
Contenido
Industrial Ecology in Historical Perspective | 3 |
Resources Discovered | 11 |
Independent Artisans | 20 |
Merchant Capitalists | 28 |
ArtisanEntrepreneurs | 39 |
Environment Technology and Community in Salisbury | 54 |
The Challenge of New Markets and Techniques | 68 |
Retreat from Progress | 83 |
Community Culture and Industrial Ecology | 110 |
Ironworks Inventory | 120 |
Ironmaking and Steelmaking Techniques | 124 |
Units and Conversion Factors | 128 |
Notes | 129 |
Bibliography | 147 |
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A Landscape Transformed | 95 |
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A Landscape Transformed: The Ironmaking District of Salisbury, Connecticut Robert Boyd Gordon Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
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