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Title: THE COMPANY TOWN
ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIETY IN THE EARLY INDUSTRIAL AGE
By: John S. Garner (Editor)
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0195070275
ISBN 13: 9780195070279
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
Pub. date: 1 September, 1992
Pages: 256
Description: A survey of those towns traditionally associated with textiles, mining or tool manufacturing, particularly those which sprang up during the Industrial Revolution. The text describes and compares the concurrent development of selected towns in Europe and North America.
Synopsis: 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.
Illustrations: halftones, line drawings
Publication: US
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
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