In the struggle to create an indigenous industry, in the efforts to encourage and support the work of metals craftsmen, in the defiance of British attempts to r

The History of Metals in America chronicles the development of metals as both an industrial activity and a science. Progress involving structural metals made po

"Over the past five hundred years, North Americans have increasingly turned to mining to produce many of their basic social and cultural objects. From cell phon

This comprehensive history of copper mining tells the full story of the industry that produces one of America's most important metals. The first inclusive accou

No era in American history has been more fascinating to Americans, or more critical to the ultimate destiny of the United States, than the colonial era. Between