Industrializing Antebellum America: The Rise of Manufacturing Entrepreneurs in the Early Republic
This book explores the rise of manufacturing through the beliefs and practices of key industrialists and their families, exploring how they represented the diverse possibilities for the organization of a new industrial society.
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Industrializing Antebellum America: The Rise of Manufacturing Entrepreneurs in the Early Republic
This book explores the rise of manufacturing through the beliefs and practices of key industrialists and their families, exploring how they represented the diverse possibilities for the organization of a new industrial society.
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Industrializing Antebellum America: The Rise of Manufacturing Entrepreneurs in the Early Republic

Industrializing Antebellum America: The Rise of Manufacturing Entrepreneurs in the Early Republic

by B. Tucker
Industrializing Antebellum America: The Rise of Manufacturing Entrepreneurs in the Early Republic

Industrializing Antebellum America: The Rise of Manufacturing Entrepreneurs in the Early Republic

by B. Tucker

Hardcover(2008)

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Overview

This book explores the rise of manufacturing through the beliefs and practices of key industrialists and their families, exploring how they represented the diverse possibilities for the organization of a new industrial society.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781403984807
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date: 10/14/2008
Edition description: 2008
Pages: 262
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

BARBARA M. TUCKER is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Connecticut Studies at Eastern Connecticut State University, USA.
KENNETH H. TUCKER JR. is Professor of Sociology at Mount Holyoke College, USA.

Table of Contents

PART I: THE COLTS: CASINO AND CRONY CAPITALISM Colt Family Values The Education of Samuel Colt Samuel Colt: From Industry to American Empire PART II: THE SLATERS: FROM PATERNALISM TO CONTRACT The Slaters of England and New England John Fox and Horatio Nelson Slater: Paternalism, Philanthropy, and the Disciplinary Society PART III: THE LAWRENCES: MANUFACTURING AND THE MORAL LIFE OF AN INDUSTRIAL URBAN ELITE Amos and Abbott Lawrence: Philanthropy and Politics in Antebellum America Amos Adams Lawrence: The "Puritan Warrior" and the Destiny of America
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