MAKING IRON STEEL: INDEPENDENT MILLS IN PITTSBURGH, 1820-19 (HISTORICAL PERSP BUS ENTERPRIS) [Hardcover]

JOHN N. INGHAM (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 297 pages
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press; 1 edition (August 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0814205429
• ISBN-13: 978-0814205426
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,711,005 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Making Iron and Steel : Independent Mills in Pittsburgh, 182, August 30, 2000

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Lucinda N Pritchard (Decatur, AL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MAKING IRON STEEL: INDEPENDENT MILLS IN PITTSBURGH, 1820-19 (HISTORICAL PERSP BUS ENTERPRIS) (Hardcover)

I was born in Pittsburgh during the 50's. Steel was King everyone in your family work at the mills. By the time I graduated from high school (74) the steel mills were shuting down and being destroyed. This book has the greatest number of human interest pictures and stories I have ever read about Pittsburgh's Steel area. This book not only coveres the large miles located in the downtown area but also brings to life the number of small towns who whole survivial was built around the mills. The era that is covered is before safety was a major concern. You can see in the pictures and the well written stories that these imagrants came together in dangerous and hard work situations to produce the greatest product of its time STEEL. When the Steel died so did much of Pittsburgh. This book shows the world how you lived and died the Pittsburgh steel way...beautifully.

2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars making iron and steel: independent mills- - - - -, September 15, 2005

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This review is from: MAKING IRON STEEL: INDEPENDENT MILLS IN PITTSBURGH, 1820-19 (HISTORICAL PERSP BUS ENTERPRIS) (Hardcover)

This book is a gift for my son who is a Pgh. history buff so I have not read it myself and cannot give a review of its text. I did, however, find it very expensive for the type of book and the limited scope of subject. The paper product itself did not "feel" worth the cost and there was not even 1 visual of a mill discussed which would have enhanced the material. Needless to say, if it were not a book for my son, I would not have purchased it.