Manufacturing Revolution

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8018-8750-5
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 509 g

Reihe: Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia

"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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peskin, Lawrence A.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Fertigungsindustrie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Unternehmensgeschichte, Einzelne Branchen und Unternehmer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor's Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Revolutionary Era
1. The British Economic System
2. Manufacturing and Revolution
3. Lurching toward Economic Independence
Part II: The Critical Period
4. Mechanic Protectionism
5. Manufacturing Societies
6. Agricultural Societies
Part III: Toward Industrialization
7. Redefining Manufacturing
8. Promoting Manufacturing in the New Century
9. Political Parties and Manufactures
10. Harmony and Discord in the "Era of Good Feelings"
Epilogue
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Peskin, Lawrence A.
Lawrence A. Peskin is an associate professor of history at Morgan State University.