Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District

This pathbreaking book tells the dramatic story of a unique manufacturing complex and the city that it helped to create. The events recounted and  interpreted by W. David Lewis are of more than local or regional significance. The rise of Sloss furnaces and Birmingham epitomized the emergence of the United States as the world''s foremost economic power.  Similarly, the closing of a once-profitabl...