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Book Calvinists Incorporated

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anne Kelly Knowles
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1997-02
  • ISBN : 0226448533
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Calvinists Incorporated written by Anne Kelly Knowles and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-02 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing immigrants onstage as central players in the drama of rural capitalist transformation, Anne Kelly Knowles traces a community of Welsh immigrants to Jackson and Gallia counties in southern Ohio. After reconstructing the gradual process of community-building, Knowles focuses on the pivotal moment when the immigrants became involved with the industrialization of their new region as workers and investors in Welsh-owned charcoal iron companies. Setting the southern Ohio Welsh in the context of Welsh immigration as a whole from 1795 to 1850, Knowles explores how these strict Calvinists responded to the moral dilemmas posed by leaving their native land and experiencing economic success in the United States. Knowles draws on a wide variety of sources, including obituaries and community histories, to reconstruct the personal histories of over 1,700 immigrants. The resulting account will find appreciative readers not only among historical geographers, but also among American economic historians and historians of religion.

Book The Charcoal iron industry of the Hanging Rock iron district  its influence on the early development of the Ohio valley

Download or read book The Charcoal iron industry of the Hanging Rock iron district its influence on the early development of the Ohio valley written by Wilber Stout and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mastering Iron

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  • Author : Anne Kelly Knowles
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2013-01-15
  • ISBN : 0226448592
  • Pages : 343 pages

Download or read book Mastering Iron written by Anne Kelly Knowles and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veins of iron run deep in the history of America. Iron making began almost as soon as European settlement, with the establishment of the first ironworks in colonial Massachusetts. Yet it was Great Britain that became the Atlantic world’s dominant low-cost, high-volume producer of iron, a position it retained throughout the nineteenth century. It was not until after the Civil War that American iron producers began to match the scale and efficiency of the British iron industry. In Mastering Iron, Anne Kelly Knowles argues that the prolonged development of the US iron industry was largely due to geographical problems the British did not face. Pairing exhaustive manuscript research with analysis of a detailed geospatial database that she built of the industry, Knowles reconstructs the American iron industry in unprecedented depth, from locating hundreds of iron companies in their social and environmental contexts to explaining workplace culture and social relations between workers and managers. She demonstrates how ironworks in Alabama, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia struggled to replicate British technologies but, in the attempt, brought about changes in the American industry that set the stage for the subsequent age of steel. Richly illustrated with dozens of original maps and period art work, all in full color, Mastering Iron sheds new light on American ambitions and highlights the challenges a young nation faced as it grappled with its geographic conditions.

Book From Coastal Wilderness to Fruited Plain

Download or read book From Coastal Wilderness to Fruited Plain written by Gordon G. Whitney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-08-29 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Coastal Wilderness to Fruited Plain is an account of the making of a large part of the American landscape following European settlement. Drawing upon land survey records and early travellers' accounts, Dr Whitney reconstructs the 'virgin' forests and grasslands of the north-eastern and central United States during the pre-settlement period. He then documents successively the clearance and fragmentation of the region's woodlands, the harvest of the forest and its game, the ploughing of the prairies, and the draining of wetlands. The degree to which these activities altered the soil, climate, plant and animal communities, and water cycle are evaluated, and the sustainability of present-day ecosystems is brought into question in this account.

Book The Pursuit of Public Power

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  • Author : Jeffrey Paul Brown
  • Publisher : Kent State University Press
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780873384964
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book The Pursuit of Public Power written by Jeffrey Paul Brown and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the origins and nature of political culture in Ohio from the American Revolution until the Civil War. Essays examine such topics as voting practices, the role of the state in national economic development, and the relationship between religion and politics.

Book Research Paper

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  • Author : University of Chicago. Dept. of Geography
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 686 pages

Download or read book Research Paper written by University of Chicago. Dept. of Geography and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Inventory of the County Archives of Ohio

Download or read book Inventory of the County Archives of Ohio written by Historical Records Survey (Ohio) and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Standard History of the Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio

Download or read book A Standard History of the Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio written by Eugene B. Willard and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardcover reprint of the original 1916 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Willard, Eugene B. Ed. A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio; An Authentic Narrative of The Past, With An Extended Survey of The Industrial And Commercial Development, Volume 2. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Willard, Eugene B. Ed. A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio; An Authentic Narrative of The Past, With An Extended Survey of The Industrial And Commercial Development, Volume 2. Chicago? The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916. Subject: Iron industry and trade, Ohio

Book General Technical Report NC

Download or read book General Technical Report NC written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography on the History of Chemistry and Chemical Technology  17th to the 19th Century

Download or read book Bibliography on the History of Chemistry and Chemical Technology 17th to the 19th Century written by Valentin Wehefritz and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 1784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Americans and Their Forests

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  • Author : Michael Williams
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1992-06-26
  • ISBN : 9780521428378
  • Pages : 630 pages

Download or read book Americans and Their Forests written by Michael Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-06-26 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Williams begins by exploring the role of the forest in American culture: the symbols, themes, and concepts - for example, pioneer woodsman, lumberjack, wilderness - generated by contact with the vast land of trees. He considers the Indian use of the forest, describing the ways in which native tribes altered it, primarily through fire, to promote a subsistence economy.

Book Oak Regeneration

Download or read book Oak Regeneration written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Standard History of the Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio V2  1916

Download or read book A Standard History of the Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio V2 1916 written by Eugene B. Willard and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Book 11th Central Hardwood Forest Conference

Download or read book 11th Central Hardwood Forest Conference written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: