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The Company town : architecture and society in the early industrial age /
Company towns - those associated with textiles, mining, or tool manufacturing, for example - can be found worldwide and from antiquity to the present. But with the Industrial Revolution what had been the isolated incidence of such towns became a building phenomenon. This book describes and compares...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1992.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Company towns - those associated with textiles, mining, or tool manufacturing, for example - can be found worldwide and from antiquity to the present. But with the Industrial Revolution what had been the isolated incidence of such towns became a building phenomenon. This book describes and compares in seven essays the concurrent development and building of selected towns in Europe and the Americas. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (245 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-241) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781429407274 1429407271 9781280525834 1280525835 9786610525836 6610525838 0195361415 9780195361414 |