Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District: An Industrial Epic (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780817356682)

This pathbreaking book tells the dramatic story of a unique manufacturing complex and the city that it helped to create. The events recounted and 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. Similarly, the closing of a once-profitable ironmaking installation amid social and technological changes that convulsed Birmingham nine decades after the city's founding typified challenges that were facing America at the dawn of the postindustrial age. Above all, Sloss Furnaces resonates with the class of competition and the frenetic energy with which southerners joined other Americans in a rush to transform a continent after a fratricidal drive for independence had failed. The sweeping narrative that Lewis has produced amply justifies its subtitle, An Industrial Epic.

Author: W. David Lewis
ISBN-10: 0817356681
ISBN-13: 9780817356682
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2011
Pages: 672
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 1.50d