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Engineering Philadelphia the Sellers family and the industrial metropolis

Title: Engineering Philadelphia [electronic resource] : the Sellers family and the industrial metropolis / Domenic Vitiello.
Author: Vitiello, Domenic.
Publication: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2013.

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Description

1 online resource (xiv, 267 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Uniform Title

Engineering Philadelphia (Online)

Alternative Title

Engineering Philadelphia (Online)

Subject

Sellers family
Manufactures > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century
Industrialization > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century
Urbanization > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century
Deindustrialization > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 20th century
Philadelphia (Pa.) > History > 19th century
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Economic conditions > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Access restricted to authorized users.

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.

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