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Enterprise and Society 2005 6(3):527-529; doi:10.1093/es/khi075
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oupjournals.org.

John Bezís-Selfa. Forging America: Ironworkers, Adventurers, and the Industrious Revolution. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2004. xi + 279 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3993-0, $39.95 (cloth).

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This history of the colonial and early national American iron industry exemplifies a new economic history that is more concerned with workers than entrepreneurs, more interested in ordinary human interactions than broad social forces, and always mindful of race, class, and gender.

The book is divided into two parts covering, respectively, the colonial and early national periods. An introductory chapter offers a short but useful overview of the iron industry, including a nuts-and-bolts description of the work performed at a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Lawrence A. Peskin

Morgan State University


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