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Engineering Philadelphia : the Sellers family and the industrial metropolis / Domenic Vitiello.
- Title
- Engineering Philadelphia : the Sellers family and the industrial metropolis / Domenic Vitiello.
- Author
- Vitiello, Domenic
- Publication
- Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2013.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Cornell University Press
- Description
- 267 pages : illustrations; maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- This book tells the story of the Sellers family who worked as manufacturers, engineers, social reformers, and urban developers, and led a variety of civic institutions including the Franklin Institute, Abolition Society, and University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Sellers family
- 1800-1999
- 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
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780801450112 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2013012347
- OCLC
- 833631058
- SCSB-12328470
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library