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Author: Patrick M. Malone (Brown University)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.408kg
ISBN: 9780801893056
ISBN 10: 0801893054
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 27 December 2009
Recommended Age: From 13
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Presents an excellent analysis of the origins, evolution and management of the waterpower system (including a discussion of hydraulic and engineering principles) during the 19th-century industrialization period in the US. Highly recommended. Choice Malone has made a real contribution by illuminating the technological basis for the rise of the nation's first planned industrial city and by showing how the novel demands posed by that industrial complex contributed to the emergence of hydraulic engineering over the course of the nineteenth century. -- Thomas Dublin New England Quarterly A work of outstanding scholarship within the field of history of technology and an important contribution to the study of industrialisation. -- Ian West Industrial Archaeology Review This worthy contribution to historical understanding is also an accessible undergraduate text... It would enliven any survey course in the history of American technology. -- John K. Brown Technology and Culture One can only imagine the work that went into mastering this material. Beyond being simply impressive, though, the book's level of detail allows readers to get an intimate sense of how the city developed physically over time. Readers interested in the broaders history of urban infrastructure will surely appreciate this. -- Blake Harrison Historical Geography Malone has supplied the missing volume, providing not merely a synthesis of what went before but a short book that is well grounded in rich primary source materials. -- David E. Nye Isis
An extremely well-written, well-researched, and well-organized analysis of how the waterpower system at America's premier industrial waterpower site emerged and evolved during the nineteenth century and how that system was managed. - Terry S. Reynolds, Michigan Technological University
Presents an excellent analysis of the origins, evolution and management of the waterpower system (including a discussion of hydraulic and engineering principles) during the 19th-century industrialization period in the US. Highly recommended. Choice 2010 Malone has made a real contribution by illuminating the technological basis for the rise of the nation's first planned industrial city and by showing how the novel demands posed by that industrial complex contributed to the emergence of hydraulic engineering over the course of the nineteenth century. -- Thomas Dublin New England Quarterly 2010 A work of outstanding scholarship within the field of history of technology and an important contribution to the study of industrialisation. -- Ian West Industrial Archaeology Review 2010 This worthy contribution to historical understanding is also an accessible undergraduate text...It would enliven any survey course in the history of American technology. -- John K. Brown Technology and Culture 2011
Author Information
Patrick M. Malone is a professor of urban studies and American civilization and director of the Urban Studies Program at Brown University. He is the coauthor of The Texture of Industry: An Archaeological View of the Industrialization of North America, and the author of The Skulking Way of War: Technology and Tactics among the New England Indians, also published by Johns Hopkins.
