Mastering iron : the struggle to modernize an American industry, 1800-1868 / Anne Kelly Knowles ; cartography by Chester Harvey.

"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...

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