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Author
Vitiello, Domenic, author.
Title
Engineering Philadelphia : the Sellers family and the industrial metropolis / Domenic Vitiello.
Publication Info.
Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2013.
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F158.44 .V64 2013
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Description
xiv, 267 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
Subject
Sellers family.
Sellers family.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
Manufactures -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
Manufactures.
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
History.
Chronological Term
19th century
Subject
Industrialization -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
Industrialization.
Urbanization -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
Urbanization.
Deindustrialization -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century.
Deindustrialization.
Chronological Term
20th century
ISBN
9780801450112 (cloth) (alkaline paper)
080145011X (cloth) (alkaline paper)