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A landscape transformed : the ironmaking district of Salisbury, Connecticut / Robert B. Gordon.
LIBRA TN704.U52 C664 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gordon, Robert B. (Robert Boyd), 1929-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iron-works--Connecticut--Salisbury Region--History.
- Iron-works.
- Industrial ecology--Connecticut--Salisbury Region.
- Industrial ecology.
- History.
- Connecticut.
- Iron mines and mining--Connecticut--Salisbury--History.
- Abandoned mined lands reclamation--Connecticut--Salisbury.
- Iron mines and mining--Environmental aspects--Connecticut--Salisbury.
- Local Subjects:
- Iron mines and mining--Connecticut--Salisbury--History.
- Abandoned mined lands reclamation--Connecticut--Salisbury.
- Iron mines and mining--Environmental aspects--Connecticut--Salisbury.
- Physical Description:
- x, 159 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- This book examines the industrial ecology of 200 years of ironmaking with renewal energy resources in northwestern Connecticut. It focuses on the cultural context of people's decisions about technology and the environment, and the gradual transition they effected in their land from industrial landscape to pastoral countryside.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-152) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195128184
- OCLC:
- 42413326
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