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

Main entry:

Vitiello, Domenic, author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2013.

Description:

xiv, 267 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

Summary:

This book tells the story of the Sellers family who worked as manufacturers, engineers, social reformers, and urban developers, and led a variety of civic institutions including the Franklin Institute, Abolition Society, and University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

ISBN:

9780801450112 (cloth ; alk. paper)
080145011X (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Sellers family.
Manufactures Pennsylvania Philadelphia History 19th century.
Industrialization Pennsylvania Philadelphia History 19th century.
Urbanization Pennsylvania Philadelphia History 19th century.
Deindustrialization Pennsylvania Philadelphia History 20th century.
Produits manufacturés Pennsylvanie Philadelphie Histoire 19e siècle.
Industrialisation Pennsylvanie Philadelphie Histoire 19e siècle.
Urbanisation Pennsylvanie Philadelphie Histoire 19e siècle.
Désindustrialisation Pennsylvanie Philadelphie Histoire 20e siècle.
Deindustrialization
Economic history
Industrialization
Manufactures
Urbanization
Philadelphia (Pa.) History 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) Economic conditions 19th century.
Pennsylvania Philadelphia

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Cornell University Press.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286680
Call No.: BIB 227106
Status: Available

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