Engineering Philadelphia : the Sellers family and the industrial metropolis / Domenic Vitiello.
Publisher: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (284 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780801469749 (e-book)
- 9780801450112 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Sellers family
- Deindustrialization -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century
- Industrialization -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century
- Manufactures -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century
- Urbanization -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 19th century
- 974.8/11 23
- F158.44 .V64 2013eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Manufacturing metropolitan development -- Migration strategies and industrial frontiers -- Rationalizing the factory and city -- Progressive economic development -- Empires of steel -- Building the scientific city -- Roots of decline.
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.