Nature incorporated : industrialization and the waters of New England
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Nature incorporated : industrialization and the waters of New England
（Studies in environment and history）
Cambridge University Press, 2003
- : pbk
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Includes index
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Nature Incorporated explores the Industrial Revolution in New England from an environmental perspective. The advent of the industrial age brought about significant changes in gender and class relations, and also in work and culture, but it also involved a fundamental change in the way the natural world was handled. Focusing on the legendary Waltham-Lowell style mills, this book examines how these textile factories brought water under their exclusive control. It examines the legal issues that arose in settling disputes over water. And it describes the far reaching ecological consequences of industrial change. Steinberg offers a reinterpretation of industrialization that centers on the struggle to control and master nature.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Origins: 1. The transformation of water
- 2. Control of water company
- 3. Waters
- Part II. Maturation: 4. The struggle over water
- 5. The law of water
- 6. Depleted waters
- 7. Fouled water
- Part III. Decline: 8. The productive value of water.
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