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- Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District: An Industrial Epic
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
- Series: History of American Science and Technology
summary
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 postindustrial age.
Above all, Sloss Furnaces resonates with the class of competition and the frenetic energy with which southerners joined other Americans in a rush to transform a continent after a fratricidal drive for independence had failed. The sweeping narrative that Lewis has produced amply justifies its subtitle, An Industrial Epic.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xvii-xxiv
- 1. The Inheritance
- pp. 1-38
- 3. The Sloss Furnace Company
- pp. 70-102
- 4. Joseph Bryan and the Virginia Connection
- pp. 103-129
- 5. Takeover, Expansion, and Recession
- pp. 130-155
- 6. A Sea of Troubles
- pp. 156-182
- 7. Turmoil and Tenacity
- pp. 183-216
- 9. The Turning Point
- pp. 246-266
- 10. Progress and Paradox
- pp. 267-295
- 11. Divergent Paths
- pp. 296-326
- 12. The End of an Era
- pp. 327-350
- 13. McQueen in Command
- pp. 351-371
- 14. Morrow and Modernization
- pp. 372-416
- 15. From Hugh Morrow to Jim Walter
- pp. 417-449
- 16. Preserving the Heritage
- pp. 450-473
- 17. In Retrospect: The Southernness of Sloss
- pp. 474-511
- Abbreviations
- pp. 513-514
- Bibliography
- pp. 583-610
Additional Information
ISBN
9780817385613
Related ISBN(s)
9780817307080, 9780817356682
MARC Record
OCLC
654808738
Pages
671
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1994