Industrializing antebellum America : the rise of manufacturing entrepreneurs in the early republic

Author(s)

• Tucker, Barbara M.
• Tucker, Kenneth Harry

Bibliographic Information

Industrializing antebellum America : the rise of manufacturing entrepreneurs in the early republic

Barbara M. Tucker, Kenneth H. Tucker, Jr

Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-251) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

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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Details

• NCID: BA88661179
• ISBN:
  • 9781403984807
• LCCN: 2008004030
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: x, 262 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HC102.5.A2
  • DC22 : 338.092/273
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Businesspeople -- United States -- Biography
  • LCSH : Industrialists -- United States -- Biography
  • LCSH : Entrepreneurship -- United States -- History -- 19th century