Engineering Philadelphia : The Sellers Family and the Industrial Metropolis /

Domenic Vitiello.
Bok · Engelsk · 2013 · Electronic books.

Omfang	1 online resource (284 p.)
Opplysninger	Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. - 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.. - This title is an account of enterprise and ingenuity, economic development and urban planning, and the rise and fall of Philadelphia as an industrial metropolis. Vitiello tells the story of the influential Sellers family, placing their experiences in the broader context of industrialization and urbanization in the United States from the colonial era through World War II.. - Specialized.
Emner	Sellers family. Deindustrialization - History - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia Industrialization - History - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia Manufactures - History - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia Urbanization - History - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia
Sjanger	Electronic books.
Geografisk emneord	Philadelphia (Pa.) - Economic conditions . - Philadelphia (Pa.) - History
Dewey	974.811
ISBN	0-8014-6973-2. - 0-8014-6974-0