The American steel industry, 1850-1970 : a geographical interpretation / Kenneth Warren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warren, Kenneth, author.

Series:

Oxford research studies in geography.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Steel industry and trade--United States--Location--History.

Steel industry and trade.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1988]

Summary:

Period of international leadership was challenged, this book interprets steel from the viewpoints of historical and economic geography. It considers both physical factors, such as resources, and human factors such as market, organization, and governmental policy. In major discussions of the east coast, Pittsburgh, the Ohio Valley, the Great Lakes, the South and the West, Warren analyzes the location and relocation of steel plants over 120 years. He explains the influence on location of a variety of factors: The accessibility of resources, the cost of transportation, the existence of specialized.

Contents:

Contents

List of Maps and Diagrams

Abbreviations

1. Location of Heavy Industry

2. American Iron Production to the Mid-Nineteenth Century

3. The Westward Movement of the Iron Trade

4. Iron Production beyond the Manufacturing Belt

5. The Rail Trade

6. The Locational Implications of Changes in Raw Materials, Techniques, and Economic Organization 1890-1920

7. Varying Patterns of Development 1890-1920. I. Pittsburgh and Chicago

8. Varying Patterns of Development 1890-1920. II. Decline and Revival in East

9. Varying Patterns of DeVelopment 1890-1920. III. Steel-making along the Lake Erie Shore and in the Valleys District10. The Structural Steel Trade

11. Steel-making in the South

12. The Interwar Years. I. Pricing Policies and the Changing Balance of Locational Advantage

13. The Interwar Years. II. Sheet Steel and the Establishment of New Steel Centres

14. The Interwar Years. III. The West

15. Second World War Steel Extensions

16. The Postwar Steel Industry. I. Materials, Technology, and Markets

17. The Postwar Steel Industry. II. Districts beyond the Manufacturing Belt18. The Postwar Steel Industry. III. The Manufacturing Belt: General Considerations and the Ohio Basin

19. The Postwar Steel Industry. IV. The Manufacturing Belt: The Lake Shore Centres

20. The Postwar Steel Industry. V. The Manufacturing Belt: The East

Epilogue: The United States and World Steel

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Reprint. Originally published: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1973. (Oxford research studies in geography).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822978732

0822978733

OCLC:

878136635