| Description |
1 online resource (245 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Merthyr Tydfil and early ironworks in south Wales / Bruce Thomas -- Noisiel-sur-Marne and the ville industrielle in France / John S. Garner -- The company town in Scandinavia / Mats Ahnlund, Lasse Brunnström -- Early New England mill towns of the Piscataqua River valley / Richard M. Candee -- Earle S. Draper and the company town in the American south / Margaret Crawford -- Company towns in the western United States / Leland M. Roth -- Company towns of Chile and Argentina / Olga Paterlini de Koch |
| Summary |
Company towns - those associated with textiles, mining, or tool manufacturing, for example - can be found worldwide and from antiquity to the present. But with the Industrial Revolution what had been the isolated incidence of such towns became a building phenomenon. This book describes and compares in seven essays the concurrent development and building of selected towns in Europe and the Americas |
| Analysis |
Towns History |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-241) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Company town architecture -- History -- 19th century
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Architecture and society.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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Architecture and society
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Company town architecture
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Industriesteden.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Garner, John S., 1945-
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| LC no. |
91035627 |
| ISBN |
9781429407274 |
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1429407271 |
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9781280525834 |
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1280525835 |
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9786610525836 |
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6610525838 |
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0195361415 |
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9780195361414 |
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