Manufacturing Revolution The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry

Name: Manufacturing Revolution The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry
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ISBN: 9780801887505

ISBN-10: 080188750X

ISBN-13: 9780801887505

Edition: 2004

Authors: Lawrence A. Peskin

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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…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 11/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

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