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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vitiello, Domenic.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sellers family.

Manufactures--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century.

Manufactures.

Industrialization--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century.

Industrialization.

Urbanization--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century.

Urbanization.

Deindustrialization--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--20th century.

Deindustrialization.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Economic conditions--19th century.

Physical Description:

xiv, 267 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2013.

Summary:

"A sweeping account of enterprise and ingenuity, economic development and urban planning, and the rise and fall of Philadelphia as an industrial metropolis. ... tells the story of the influential Sellers family, placing their experiences in the broader context of industrialization and urbanization in the United States from the colonial era through World War II"--provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Zebooker fund bookplate.

Athenaeum copy: c.2 and c.3 Gift of the publisher.

ISBN:

9780801450112 ;