Title: Out of the fiery furnace :
Authors: Raymond, Robert.
Date: 1986
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press,
Physical description: xiv, 274 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: C
Contents: From stone to copper -- The rise of bronze -- Bronze gives way to iron -- Swords and ploughshares -- Shining conquests -- A world-wide contagion -- The revolution of necessity -- Steam and steel launch the revolution -- Into the machine age -- From alchemy to the atom -- The age of metals: can it last?
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Civilization--History; Metallurgy--History.; Technology and civilization.