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Author Vitiello, Domenic.

Title Engineering Philadelphia : the Sellers family and the industrial metropolis / Domenic Vitiello.

Publication Info. Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (284 pages)
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Bibliography 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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Sellers family.
Deindustrialization -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century.
Industrialization -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
Manufactures -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
Urbanization -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 19th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Vitiello, Domenic. aEngineering Philadelphia. Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2013. xiv, 267 pages 9780801450112 (DLC) 2013012347
ISBN 9780801450112 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801469749 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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