Nature Incorporated Industrialization and the Waters of Ne England [Paperback]

A reinterpretation of industrialization that centres on the struggle to control and master nature.Nature Incorporated explores the Industrial Revolution in New England from an environmental perspective. Focusing on the legendary Waltham-Lowell style mills, this book examines how these textile factories brought water under their exclusive control.Nature Incorporated explores the Industrial Revolution in New England from an environmental perspective. Focusing on the legendary Waltham-Lowell style mills, this book examines how these textile factories brought water under their exclusive control.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 describes the far reaching ecological consequences of industrial change.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. Steinberg has successfully demonstrated the devastating impact of industrialization on the environment of the Merrimack Valley. The New England Quarterly Steinberg has written a major contribution to not only environmental history, but to the history of industrialization itself. He has used the tools of legal history, social history, and technological history to create an environmental history of industrialization which should be read by all students of nineteenth-century America. Journal of Social History Nature Incorporatel#)