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American craft
Author_Christopher C. Fennell
buildings
canals
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ceramics
coal fields
commercial products
commodity manufacturing
commodity production
consumer goods
copper mine
craft
cutlery
Edgefield
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Equipment
extraction
factories
Heritage
industrial activities
Industrial Enterprises
Industrial Revolution
Industry
iron
kilns
labor history
landscapes
lifeways
lumber mills
material culture
metallurgy
mining
pottery
preservation
Railroads
stoneware pottery
tanneries
textile mills
Transportation
Workplace
Product details
- ISBN 9780813069043
- Weight: 475g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 28 Sep 2021
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this expansive yet concise survey, Christopher Fennell discusses archaeological research from sites across the United States that once manufactured, harvested, or processed commodities. Through studies of craft enterprise and the Industrial Revolution, this book uncovers key insights into American history from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries.
Exploring evidence from textile mills, glassworks, cutlery manufacturers, and tanneries, Fennell describes the complicated transition from skilled manual work to mechanized production methods, and he offers examples of how artisanal skill remained important in many factory contexts.
Fennell also traces the distribution and transportation of goods along canals and railroads. He delves into sites of extraction, such as lumber mills, copper mines, and coal fields, and reviews diverse methods for smelting and shaping iron. The book features an in-depth case study of Edgefield, South Carolina, a town that pioneered the production of alkaline-glazed stoneware pottery. Fennell outlines shifts within the field of industrial archaeology over the past century that have culminated in the recognition that these locations of remarkable energy, tumult, and creativity represent the lives and ingenuity of many people. In addition, he points to ways the field can help inform sustainable strategies for industrial enterprises in the present day.
Exploring evidence from textile mills, glassworks, cutlery manufacturers, and tanneries, Fennell describes the complicated transition from skilled manual work to mechanized production methods, and he offers examples of how artisanal skill remained important in many factory contexts.
Fennell also traces the distribution and transportation of goods along canals and railroads. He delves into sites of extraction, such as lumber mills, copper mines, and coal fields, and reviews diverse methods for smelting and shaping iron. The book features an in-depth case study of Edgefield, South Carolina, a town that pioneered the production of alkaline-glazed stoneware pottery. Fennell outlines shifts within the field of industrial archaeology over the past century that have culminated in the recognition that these locations of remarkable energy, tumult, and creativity represent the lives and ingenuity of many people. In addition, he points to ways the field can help inform sustainable strategies for industrial enterprises in the present day.
Christopher C. Fennell, professor of anthropology and law at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the author of Broken Chains and Subverted Plans: Ethnicity, Race, and Commodities and Crossroads and Cosmologies: Diasporas and Ethnogenesis in the New World.
