Author: Publisher: UC Biblioteca Geral 1
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Silas Deane and Lord Sheffield's. “Observations on American Commerce
Author: Publisher: UC Biblioteca Geral 1
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
A Brief Examination of Lord Sheffield's Observations on the Commerce of the United States
Author: Tench CoxePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
A Brief Examination of Lord Sheffield's Observations on the Commerce of the United States in Seven Numbers
Author: Manufacturing Advantage
Author: Lindsay Schakenbach RegelePublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421425270
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.
The critical review, or annals of literature
Author: Bibliotheca Americana Nova
Author: Transactions of the State Agricultural Society of Michigan
Author: Michigan State Agricultural SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Transactions
Author: Michigan State Agricultural SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Transactions of the State Agricultural Society, with Reports of County Agricultural Societies
Author: Michigan State Agricultural SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Transactions
Author: Michigan state agricultural society, LansingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
