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Veins of iron run deep in the history of America. Yet it was Great Britain that became the Atlantic world's dominant low-cost, high-volume producer of iron. The author argues that the prolonged development of the American iron industry was largely due to geographical problems the British did not face.

Mastering Iron The Struggle to Modernize an

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 1/15/2013 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780226448596
      978-0226448596
      ISBN-10 0226448592
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      Business, Finance & Law Construction and heavy industry Industrialisation and industrial history

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      Book Synopsis
      Veins of iron run deep in the history of America. Yet it was Great Britain that became the Atlantic world's dominant low-cost, high-volume producer of iron. The author argues that the prolonged development of the American iron industry was largely due to geographical problems the British did not face.

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