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Steel: A Design, Cultural and Ecological History by Tony Fry, Professor Anne-Marie Willis (Paperback, 2015)
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Steel has, over centuries, played a crucial role in shaping our material, and in particular, urban landscapes. This books undertakes a cultural and ecological history of the material, examining the relationship between steel and design at a micro and macro level - in terms of both what it has been used to design and how it has functioned as a 'world-making force'. The research for the book is informed by diverse sources including industry journals, contemporary accounts and technical literature - all framed by rich, early accounts of iron and steel making from the middle ages to the opening of the industrial age, and most notably, the crucial works of Vannoccio Biringuccio, Georgius Agricola, Andrew Ure and Harry Scrivenor. In contrast, trans-cultural accounts of the history of metallurgy from eminent sinologists and cultural historians like Joseph Needham and G.E.R. Lloyd are used. Readings on the pre-history and history of science, as well as histories and philosophies technology from scholars such as Siegfried Giedion, Merritt Roe Smith, L.T.C Rolt, Robert B. Gordon inform the analysis. Social and economic history from historians such as Eric Hobsbawn, William T. Hogan and David Brody are consulted; labour process theory is also examined, particularly the influential writings of F.W. Taylor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and his contemporary critics, like David Nobel and Harry Braverman. Many other disciples also inform the account: histories of urban design and architecture, transport and military history, environmental history and geography.Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-139780857854803
eBay Product ID (ePID)213273313
Product Key Features
Number of Pages272 Pages
Publication NameSteel: a Design, Cultural and Ecological History
LanguageEnglish
SubjectGeography & Geosciences, Sustainability
Publication Year2015
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaMechanical Engineering
AuthorTony Fry, Professor Anne-Marie Willis
SeriesDesign, Histories, Futures
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height216 mm
Item Weight393 g
Item Width138 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorTony Fry, Professor Anne-Marie Willis
Issn2059-3074
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