Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District: An Industrial Epic

by W. David Lewis

This pathbreaking book tells the dramatic story of a unique manufacturing complex and the city that it helped to create. The events recounted anda interpreted by W. David Lewis are of more than local or regional significance. The rise of Sloss furnaces and Birmingham epitomized the emergence of the United States as the world's foremost economic power.a Similarly, the closing of a once-profitable ironmaking installation amid social and technological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817307087
• ISBN13: 9780817307080
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 to Postsecondary