Title A landscape transformed : the ironmaking district of Salisbury, Connecticut / Robert B. Gordon

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford Univ. Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (x, 159 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Contents; ONE: Industrial Ecology in Historical Perspective; TWO: Resources Discovered; THREE: Independent Artisans; FOUR: Merchant Capitalists; FIVE: Artisan-Entrepreneurs; SIX: Environment, Technology, and Community in Salisbury; SEVEN: The Challenge of New Markets and Techniques; EIGHT: Retreat from Progress; NINE: A Landscape Transformed; TEN: Community, Culture, and Industrial Ecology; APPENDIX ONE: Ironworks Inventory; APPENDIX TWO: Ironmaking and Steelmaking Techniques; APPENDIX THREE: Units and Conversion Factors; Notes; Bibliography; Index Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-152) and index Notes Print version record Subject Iron-works -- Connecticut -- Salisbury -- History Industrial ecology -- Connecticut -- Salisbury Iron mines and mining -- Connecticut -- Salisbury -- History Abandoned mined lands reclamation -- Connecticut -- Salisbury Iron mines and mining -- Environmental aspects -- Connecticut -- Salisbury BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Service. Abandoned mined lands reclamation Industrial ecology Iron mines and mining Iron mines and mining -- Environmental aspects Iron-works Connecticut -- Salisbury Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780195351897 0195351894 1280655054 9781280655050

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