Book ID: CBB001452065

Engineering Philadelphia: The Sellers Family and the Industrial Metropolis (2013)

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Vitiello, Domenic (Author)


Cornell University Press


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: xiv + 267 pp.; ill.; maps
Language: English

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.Manufactures -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century. Industrialization -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century. Urbanization -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century. Deindustrialization -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century. Deindustrialization. Economic history. Industrialization. Manufactures. Urbanization. Named Person: Sellers family. Sellers family. Genre/Form: History. Time: 1800 - 1999 Geographic: Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 19th century. Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century. Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

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Authors & Contributors
Elizabeth Esch
Heath, Andrew
MacDowell, Laurel Sefton
Pedroche, Ben
Gregory, Martin
Yuan, Jiangyang
Concepts
Industrialization
Urbanization
Mass production
Economics
Technology and society
Architecture
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
21st century
Places
United States
Philadelphia, PA
Great Britain
Canada
England
Montreal (Quebec, Canada)
Institutions
Institut Pasteur, Paris
Franklin Institute, Philadelphia
Ford Motor Company
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