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

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

This book concentrates on the social and economic effects that metals have had on community life and on wider historical developments. It gives a fascinating pe

"This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by Ame