Author: Barbara M. Tucker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Samuel Slater and the Origins of the American Textile Industry, 1790-1860
Author: Barbara M. Tucker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Samuel Slater's Mill and the Industrial Revolution
Author: Christopher Simonds
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780382099519
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
A biography of the English mechanical genius who, in 1789, defied laws forbidding the emigration of textile workers and established the American textile industry in Rhode Island.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780382099519
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
A biography of the English mechanical genius who, in 1789, defied laws forbidding the emigration of textile workers and established the American textile industry in Rhode Island.
Samuel Slater and Sons
Author: Barbara M. Tucker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Samuel Slater and the Origins of the American Textile Industry, 1790-1860
Author: Barbara M. Tucker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Samuel Slater
Author: Paul E. Rivard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Textile fabrics
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Textile fabrics
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
The Roots of American Industrialization
Author: David R. Meyer
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801871412
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Farms that were on poor soil and distant from markets declined, whereas other farms successfully adjusted production as rural and urban markets expanded and as Midwestern agricultural products flowed eastward after 1840. Rural and urban demand for manufactures in the East supported diverse industrial development and prosperous rural areas and burgeoning cities supplied increasing amounts of capital for investment.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801871412
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Farms that were on poor soil and distant from markets declined, whereas other farms successfully adjusted production as rural and urban markets expanded and as Midwestern agricultural products flowed eastward after 1840. Rural and urban demand for manufactures in the East supported diverse industrial development and prosperous rural areas and burgeoning cities supplied increasing amounts of capital for investment.
Samuel Slater
Author: Leonard M. Fanning
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrialists
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrialists
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Memoir of Samuel Slater
Author: George Savage White
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Engines of Change
Author: Brooke Hindle
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Contains photographs, drawings, and maps that depict the physical survivals of technologies of the American industrial revolution, most of which are displayed in the Smithsonian Institution; and includes text that explains the technology and related aspects of the era.
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Contains photographs, drawings, and maps that depict the physical survivals of technologies of the American industrial revolution, most of which are displayed in the Smithsonian Institution; and includes text that explains the technology and related aspects of the era.
Reader's Guide to American History
Author: Peter J. Parish
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134261829
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 917
Book Description
There are so many books on so many aspects of the history of the United States, offering such a wide variety of interpretations, that students, teachers, scholars, and librarians often need help and advice on how to find what they want. The Reader's Guide to American History is designed to meet that need by adopting a new and constructive approach to the appreciation of this rich historiography. Each of the 600 entries on topics in political, social and economic history describes and evaluates some 6 to 12 books on the topic, providing guidance to the reader on everything from broad surveys and interpretive works to specialized monographs. The entries are devoted to events and individuals, as well as broader themes, and are written by a team of well over 200 contributors, all scholars of American history.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134261829
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 917
Book Description
There are so many books on so many aspects of the history of the United States, offering such a wide variety of interpretations, that students, teachers, scholars, and librarians often need help and advice on how to find what they want. The Reader's Guide to American History is designed to meet that need by adopting a new and constructive approach to the appreciation of this rich historiography. Each of the 600 entries on topics in political, social and economic history describes and evaluates some 6 to 12 books on the topic, providing guidance to the reader on everything from broad surveys and interpretive works to specialized monographs. The entries are devoted to events and individuals, as well as broader themes, and are written by a team of well over 200 contributors, all scholars of American history.