Hopewell Village A Social and Economic History of an Iron Making Community 1st Edition by Joseph Walker 0812274741 9780812274745

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ISBN 10: 0812274741

ISBN 13: 9780812274745

Author: Joseph E. Walker

Before 1840 the American iron industry consisted in the main of small furnaces obliged by their need of the charcoal they used for fuel to locate in areas of heavy forest. Around these isolated furnaces grew communities of workers and their families, and of the farmers and service people who supplied their needs. In hundreds of forest clearings there could be found rural industrial settlements as distinctive in form and as important in product as the New England town or the Southern plantation. Hopewell Village tells the story of one such community, which, from 1771 to 1883, made iron in Southern Berks County, Pennsylvania.

What little has been written about the iron villages has concentrated largely on the techniques of furnace operation. This book is concerned with the lives of the people of the iron plantations, from the wealthy ironmaster to the youngest indentured servant, and how they interacted with each other and with the outside world in work, religion, education, and play. Special attention has been given to the lives of minorities.

While every part of the book is documented for the scholar-reader, the style of writing is plain enough to be read with meaning by those who have little background in the techniques either of the iron industry or historiography. Containing much original source material, tables, tabulations and numerous photographs, Hopewell Village should be of interest to students of industrial history, transportation, labor relations, and race relations, as well as to the general reader of American history.

Hopewell Village A Social and Economic History of an Iron Making Community 1st Table of contents:

Part One: The Historical Village

Part Two: The Physical Village

Part Three: The Industrial Village

Part Four: The Commercial Village

Part Five: The Vocational Village

Part Six: The Social Village

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