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Manufacturing Revolution

The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry
  • ISBN-13: 9780801873249
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Lawrence A. Peskin
  • Price: AUD $139.00
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  • Local release date: 15/03/2004
  • Format: Hardback 312 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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''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

Series Editor's ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: The Revolutionary Era1. The British Economic System2. Manufacturing and Revolution3. Lurching toward Economic IndependencePart II: The Critical Period4. Mechanic Protectionism5. Manufacturing Societies6. Agricultural SocietiesPart III: Toward Industrialization7. Redefining Manufacturing8. Promoting Manufacturing in the New Century9. Political Parties and Manufactures10. Harmony and Discord in the ""Era of Good Feelings""EpilogueNotesEssay on SourcesIndex

""Peskin examines the intellectual foundations of economic growth in the early Republic.""

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