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

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I The Colts: Casino and Crony Capitalism -- 1 Colt Family Values -- 2 The Education of Samuel Colt -- 3 Samuel Colt: From Industry to American Empire -- Part II The Slaters: From Paternalis...

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Hauptverfasser:
Tucker, Barbara M., Tucker, Kenneth H.
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Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York Palgrave Macmillan US 2008
Zusammenfassung:
Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I The Colts: Casino and Crony Capitalism -- 1 Colt Family Values -- 2 The Education of Samuel Colt -- 3 Samuel Colt: From Industry to American Empire -- Part II The Slaters: From Paternalism to Contract -- 4 The Slaters of England and New England -- 5 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
6 Amos and Abbott Lawrence: Philanthropy and Politics in Antebellum America -- 7 Amos Adams Lawrence: The "Puritan Warrior" and the Destiny of America -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
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1 Online-Ressource (x, 262 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9780230614642
Schlagworte:
USA
Produktionswirtschaft
Geschichte 1812-1861
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