Author: Edwin Troxell Freedley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Philadelphia and Its Manufactures
Author: Edwin Troxell Freedley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Proprietary Capitalism
Author: Philip Scranton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521521352
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
A careful reconstruction of the rise of textile capitalism in the Quaker City.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521521352
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
A careful reconstruction of the rise of textile capitalism in the Quaker City.
Alexander Hamilton's Famous Report on Manufactures
Author: United States. Department of the Treasury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manufactures
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manufactures
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Manufacturing Revolution
Author: Lawrence A. Peskin
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801887505
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"While much has been written about the industrial revolution," writes Lawrence Peskin, "we rarely read about industrial revolutionaries." This absence, he explains, reflects the preoccupation of both classical and Marxist economics with impersonal forces rather than with individuals. In Manufacturing Revolution Peskin deviates from both dominant paradigms by closely examining the words and deeds of individual Americans who made things in their own shops, who met in small groups to promote industrialization, and who, on the local level, strove for economic independence. In speeches, petitions, books, newspaper articles, club meetings, and coffee–house conversations, they fervently discussed the need for large-scale American manufacturing a half-century before the Boston Associates built their first factory. Peskin shows how these economic pioneers launched a discourse that continued for decades, linking industrialization to the cause of independence and guiding the new nation along the path of economic ambition. Based upon extensive research in both manuscript and printed sources from the period between 1760 and 1830, this book will be of interest to historians of the early republic and economic historians as well as to students of technology, business, and industry.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801887505
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"While much has been written about the industrial revolution," writes Lawrence Peskin, "we rarely read about industrial revolutionaries." This absence, he explains, reflects the preoccupation of both classical and Marxist economics with impersonal forces rather than with individuals. In Manufacturing Revolution Peskin deviates from both dominant paradigms by closely examining the words and deeds of individual Americans who made things in their own shops, who met in small groups to promote industrialization, and who, on the local level, strove for economic independence. In speeches, petitions, books, newspaper articles, club meetings, and coffee–house conversations, they fervently discussed the need for large-scale American manufacturing a half-century before the Boston Associates built their first factory. Peskin shows how these economic pioneers launched a discourse that continued for decades, linking industrialization to the cause of independence and guiding the new nation along the path of economic ambition. Based upon extensive research in both manuscript and printed sources from the period between 1760 and 1830, this book will be of interest to historians of the early republic and economic historians as well as to students of technology, business, and industry.
Manufacturing Advantage
Author: Lindsay Schakenbach Regele
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421425254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
How manufacturing textiles and guns transformed the United States from colonial dependent to military power. In 1783, the Revolutionary War drew to a close, but America was still threatened by enemies at home and abroad. The emerging nation faced tax rebellions, Indian warfare, and hostilities with France and England. Its arsenal—a collection of hand-me-down and beat-up firearms—was woefully inadequate, and its manufacturing sector was weak. In an era when armies literally froze in the field, military preparedness depended on blankets and jackets, the importation of which the British Empire had coordinated for over 200 years. Without a ready supply of guns, the new nation could not defend itself; without its own textiles, it was at the economic mercy of the British. Domestic industry offered the best solution for true economic and military independence. In Manufacturing Advantage, Lindsay Schakenbach Regele shows how the US government promoted the industrial development of textiles and weapons to defend the country from hostile armies—and hostile imports. Moving from the late 1700s through the Mexican-American War, Schakenbach Regele argues that both industries developed as a result of what she calls “national security capitalism”: a mixed enterprise system in which government agents and private producers brokered solutions to the problems of war and international economic disparities. War and State Department officials played particularly key roles in the emergence of American industry, facilitating arms makers and power loom weavers in the quest to develop industrial resources. And this defensive strategy, Schakenbach Regele reveals, eventually evolved to promote westward expansion, as well as America’s growing commercial and territorial empire. Examining these issues through the lens of geopolitics, Manufacturing Advantage places the rise of industry in the United States in the context of territorial expansion, diplomacy, and warfare. Ultimately, the book reveals the complex link between government intervention and private initiative in a country struggling to create a political economy that balanced military competence with commercial needs.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421425254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
How manufacturing textiles and guns transformed the United States from colonial dependent to military power. In 1783, the Revolutionary War drew to a close, but America was still threatened by enemies at home and abroad. The emerging nation faced tax rebellions, Indian warfare, and hostilities with France and England. Its arsenal—a collection of hand-me-down and beat-up firearms—was woefully inadequate, and its manufacturing sector was weak. In an era when armies literally froze in the field, military preparedness depended on blankets and jackets, the importation of which the British Empire had coordinated for over 200 years. Without a ready supply of guns, the new nation could not defend itself; without its own textiles, it was at the economic mercy of the British. Domestic industry offered the best solution for true economic and military independence. In Manufacturing Advantage, Lindsay Schakenbach Regele shows how the US government promoted the industrial development of textiles and weapons to defend the country from hostile armies—and hostile imports. Moving from the late 1700s through the Mexican-American War, Schakenbach Regele argues that both industries developed as a result of what she calls “national security capitalism”: a mixed enterprise system in which government agents and private producers brokered solutions to the problems of war and international economic disparities. War and State Department officials played particularly key roles in the emergence of American industry, facilitating arms makers and power loom weavers in the quest to develop industrial resources. And this defensive strategy, Schakenbach Regele reveals, eventually evolved to promote westward expansion, as well as America’s growing commercial and territorial empire. Examining these issues through the lens of geopolitics, Manufacturing Advantage places the rise of industry in the United States in the context of territorial expansion, diplomacy, and warfare. Ultimately, the book reveals the complex link between government intervention and private initiative in a country struggling to create a political economy that balanced military competence with commercial needs.
Manufactures, 1905
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860: Exhibiting the Origin and Growth of the Principal Mechanic Arts and Manufactures, from the Earliest Colonial Period to the Adoption of the Constitution and Comprising Annals of the Industry of the United States in Machinery, Manufactures and Useful Arts...
Author: John Leander Bishop
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860...
Author: John Leander Bishop
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860
Author: James Leander Bishop
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 932
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Manufactures of the United States in 1860
Author: United States. Census Office 8th Census, 1860
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manufactures
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manufactures
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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