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Author Lewis, W. David (Walter David), 1931-

Title Sloss Furnaces and the rise of the Birmingham district : an industrial epic / W. David Lewis.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [1994]
©1994

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 645 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome.
Description text file
Series History of American science and technology series
History of American science and technology series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 583-610) and index.
Summary Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District contradicts earlier interpretations of southern industrialization by showing that Birmingham, which became a leading symbol of the New South, was in fact deeply rooted in the antebellum plantation system and its "peculiar institution," slavery. As Lewis demonstrates, southern businessmen pursued their own indigenous model of economic growth and were selective in how they imported capital, machinery, and technical expertise from outside the region. The racial crises that erupted in Birmingham during the 1960s can be traced, in part, to labor-intensive developmental strategies that were present from the birth of a city that might have become a bastion of industrial slavery if the South had won the Civil War.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Inheritance -- 2. James W. Sloss and the Birth of Birmingham -- 3. Sloss Furnace Company -- 4. Joseph Bryan and the Virginia Connection -- 5. Takeover, Expansion, and Recession -- 6. Sea of Troubles -- 7. Turmoil and Tenacity -- 8. Brown Ore, Basic Steel, and the Emergence of Sloss-Sheffield -- 9. Turning Point -- 10. Progress and Paradox -- 11. Divergent Paths -- 12. End of an Era -- 13. McQueen in Command -- 14. Morrow and Modernization -- 15. From Hugh Morrow to Jim Walter -- 16. Preserving the Heritage -- 17. In Retrospect: The Southernness of Sloss.
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Subject Sloss Furnace Company -- History.
Sloss Furnace Company.
History.
Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark -- History.
Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark.
Sloss Furnace Company.
Iron industry and trade -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History.
Iron industry and trade.
Alabama -- Birmingham.
Iron foundries -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History.
Iron foundries.
Iron founding -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History.
Iron founding.
Iron -- Metallurgy.
Iron -- Metallurgy.
Industries -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History.
Industries.
Birmingham (Ala.) -- Economic conditions.
Birmingham (Ala.) -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Lewis, W. David (Walter David), 1931- Sloss Furnaces and the rise of the Birmingham district. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1994 (DLC) 93048178
ISBN 9780817385613 (electronic book)
0817385614 (electronic book)
0817356681 (print)
9780817356682 (print)
0817307087
9780817307080
0817307087 (alkaline paper)
9780817307080 (alkaline paper)
9780817356682
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