Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District
An Industrial Epic
1st Edition
Published on 15. February 2011
672 pages
978-0-8173-8561-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The Inheritance
- 2. James W. Sloss and the Birth of Birmingham
- 3. The Sloss Furnace Company
- 4. Joseph Bryan and the Virginia Connection
- 5. Takeover, Expansion, and Recession
- 6. A Sea of Troubles
- 7. Turmoil and Tenacity
- 8. Brown Ore, Basic Steel, and the Emergence of Sloss-Sheffield
- 9. The Turning Point
- 10. Progress and Paradox
- 11. Divergent Paths
- 12. The End of an Era
- 13. McQueen in Command
- 14. Morrow and Modernization
- 15. From Hugh Morrow to Jim Walter
- 16. Preserving the Heritage
- 17. In Retrospect: The Southernness of Sloss
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
