Contents; ONE: Industrial Ecology in Historical Perspective; TWO: Resources Discovered; THREE: Independent Artisans; FOUR: Merchant Capitalists; FIVE: Artisan-Entrepreneurs; SIX: Environment, Technology, and Community in Salisbury; SEVEN: The Challenge of New Markets and Techniques; EIGHT: Retreat from Progress; NINE: A Landscape Transformed; TEN: Community, Culture, and Industrial Ecology; APPENDIX ONE: Ironworks Inventory; APPENDIX TWO: Ironmaking and Steelmaking Techniques; APPENDIX THREE: Units and Conversion Factors; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This book examines the industrial ecology of 200 years of ironmaking with renewal energy resources in northwestern Connecticut. It focuses on the cultural context of people's decisions about technology and the environment, and the gradual transition they effected in their land from industrial landscape to pastoral countryside
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-152) and index