Engines of enterprise : an economic history of New England
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Engines of enterprise : an economic history of New England
Harvard University Press, 2000
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Includes index
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: cloth ISBN 9780674000995
内容説明
New England's economy has a history as dramatic as any in the world. From an inauspicious beginnings - as immigration ground to a halt in the 18th century - New England went on to lead the United States in its transformation from an agrarian to an industrial economy. And when the rest of the country caught up in th emid-20th century, New England reinvented itself as a leader in the complex economy of the information society. This book tells this dramatic story in a sequence of narrative essays written by prominent historians and economists. These essays chart the changing fortunes of entrepreneurs and venturers, businessmen and inventors, and common folk toiling in fields, in factories, and in air-conditioned offices. The authors describe how, short of staples crops, colonial New Englanders turned to the sea and built an empire; and how the region became the earliest home of the textile industry as commercial fortunes underwrote new industries in the 19th century. They show us the region as it grew ahead of the rest of the country and as the rest of the United States caught up.
And they trace the transformation of New England's products and exports from cotton textiles and machine tools to such intangible goods as education and software. Concluding short essays also put forward surprising but persuasive arguments - for instance, that slavery, while not prominent in colonial New England, was a critical part of the economy; and that the federal government played a crucial role in the development of the region's industrial skills.
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: [pbk.] ISBN 9780674009844
内容説明
New England's economy has a history as dramatic as any in the world. From an inauspicious beginning--as immigration ground to a halt in the eighteenth century--New England went on to lead the United States in its transformation from an agrarian to an industrial economy. And when the rest of the country caught up in the mid-twentieth century, New England reinvented itself as a leader in the complex economy of the information society.
Engines of Enterprise tells this dramatic story in a sequence of narrative essays written by preeminent historians and economists. These essays chart the changing fortunes of entrepreneurs and venturers, businessmen and inventors, and common folk toiling in fields, in factories, and in air-conditioned offices. The authors describe how, short of staple crops, colonial New Englanders turned to the sea and built an empire; and how the region became the earliest home of the textile industry as commercial fortunes underwrote new industries in the nineteenth century. They show us the region as it grew ahead of the rest of the country and as the rest of the United States caught up. And they trace the transformation of New England's products and exports from cotton textiles and machine tools to such intangible goods as education and software. Concluding short essays also put forward surprising but persuasive arguments--for instance, that slavery, while not prominent in colonial New England, was a critical part of the economy; and that the federal government played a crucial role in the development of the region's industrial skills.
目次
Acknowledgments Introduction Peter Temin The Birth of New England in the Atlantic Economy: From Its Beginning to 1770 Margaret Ellen Newell The Invention of American Capitalism: The Economy of New England in the Federal Period Winifred Barr Rothenberg The Industrialization of New England, 1830-1880 Peter Temin The Challenges of Economic Maturity: New England, 1880-1940 Joshua L. Rosenbloom The Transition from a Mill-Based to a Knowledge-Based Economy: New England, 1940-2000 Lynn Elaine Browne and Steven Sass Reflections on the Origins, Development, and Future of the New England Economy Slavery and Population Growth in Colonial New England Bernard Bailyn New England Industry and the Federal Government Merritt Roe Smith The Future of New England Paul Krugman Notes Contributors Index
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