Author: United States. Congress House
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Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
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Executive Documents Printed by Order of the House of Representatives, During the First Session of the Thirty-eighth Congress, 1863-'64
Author: United States. Congress House
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Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
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Publisher:
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Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
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House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents
Author: United States. Congress. House
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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Manufacturing Advantage
Author: Lindsay Schakenbach Regele
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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British museum Catalogue of Printed books Virgilius Maro (Publius)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Report of the Superintendent ... Showing the Progress of the Work
Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Miscellaneous Documents
Author: United States. Congress. House
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Reciprocity with Canada
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 870
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 870
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The Congressional Globe
Author: United States. Congress
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1252
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1252
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Annual Report of the Director, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
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Category : Geodesy
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Publisher:
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Category : Geodesy
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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