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Book Synopsis A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise by : Thomas M. Doerflinger
Download or read book A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise written by Thomas M. Doerflinger and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social, economic, and political study of Philadelphia merchants, this study presents both the spirit and statistics of merchant life. Doerflinger studies the Philadelphia merchant community from three perspectives: their commercial world, their confrontation with the Revolution and its aftermath, and their role in diversifying the local economy. The analysis of entrepreneurship dominates the study and challenges long-standing assumptions about American economic history.
Book Synopsis Mastering Iron by : Anne Kelly Knowles
Download or read book Mastering Iron written by Anne Kelly Knowles and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veins of iron run deep in the history of America. Iron making began almost as soon as European settlement, with the establishment of the first ironworks in colonial Massachusetts. Yet it was Great Britain that became the Atlantic world’s dominant low-cost, high-volume producer of iron, a position it retained throughout the nineteenth century. It was not until after the Civil War that American iron producers began to match the scale and efficiency of the British iron industry. In Mastering Iron, Anne Kelly Knowles argues that the prolonged development of the US iron industry was largely due to geographical problems the British did not face. Pairing exhaustive manuscript research with analysis of a detailed geospatial database that she built of the industry, Knowles reconstructs the American iron industry in unprecedented depth, from locating hundreds of iron companies in their social and environmental contexts to explaining workplace culture and social relations between workers and managers. She demonstrates how ironworks in Alabama, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia struggled to replicate British technologies but, in the attempt, brought about changes in the American industry that set the stage for the subsequent age of steel. Richly illustrated with dozens of original maps and period art work, all in full color, Mastering Iron sheds new light on American ambitions and highlights the challenges a young nation faced as it grappled with its geographic conditions.
Book Synopsis The Jim Crow North by : Matthew George Washington
Download or read book The Jim Crow North written by Matthew George Washington and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located approximately forty miles northwest of Philadelphia, the working-class borough of Pottstown does not immediately come to mind as an influential site of the Black freedom struggle. Yet this small town in Pennsylvania served as a significant hub of interracial civil rights activism with regional as well as national impact. In The Jim Crow North: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, Matthew George Washington adds another interpretive perspective to historiography by using both the "freedom North" and the "long civil rights movement" theoretical models to frame the borough's unique history. Primary documents, including newspaper accounts, census records, oral histories, and correspondence present a vivid account of a rapidly changing town, from the dawn of its civil rights movement during World War II to the revitalization of its NAACP branch in the early 1950s and its activism throughout the 1960s. Placing special emphasis on the demographic nature of the movement, Washington explores how interracial collaboration among the working class made up the movement's critical base—and how, through it all, Black activists remained front and center. This critical examination of Pottstown illuminates the struggle for African American civil rights in one of the long-ignored urban spaces of the North, providing a rich and in-depth portrait of the Black freedom struggle of postwar America.
Book Synopsis Forging America by : John Bezis-Selfa
Download or read book Forging America written by John Bezis-Selfa and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stacks of stone preside over many bucolic and wooded landscapes in the mid-Atlantic states. Initially constructed more than two hundred years ago, they housed blast furnaces that converted rock and wood into the iron that enabled the United States to secure its national independence. By the eve of the Revolutionary War, furnaces and forges in the American colonies turned out one-seventh of the world's iron.Forging America illuminates the fate of labor in an era when industry, manhood, and independence began to take on new and highly charged meanings. John Bezís-Selfa argues that the iron industry, with its early concentrations of capital and labor, reveals the close links between industrial and political revolution. Through means ranging from religious exhortation to force, ironmasters encouraged or compelled workers—free, indentured, and enslaved—to adopt new work styles and standards of personal industry. Eighteenth-century revolutionary rhetoric hastened the demise of indentured servitude, however, and national independence reinforced the legal status of slavery and increasingly defined manual labor as "dependent" and racially coded. Bezís-Selfa highlights the importance of slave labor to early American industrial development. Research in documents from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries led Bezís-Selfa to accounts of the labor of African-Americans, indentured servants, new immigrants, and others. Their stories inform his highly readable narrative of more than two hundred years of American history.
Book Synopsis British Regulation of the Colonial Iron Industry by : Arthur Cecil Bining
Download or read book British Regulation of the Colonial Iron Industry written by Arthur Cecil Bining and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A record of a thriving early American industry and the inability of the British Parliament to restrict its success.
Book Synopsis Hamilton Unbound by : Robert E. Wright
Download or read book Hamilton Unbound written by Robert E. Wright and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-08-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern financial theories enable us to look at old problems in early American Republic historiography from new perspectives. Concepts such as information asymmetry, portfolio choice, and principal-agent dilemmas open up new scholarly vistas. Transcending the ongoing debates over the prevalence of either community or capitalism in early America, Wright offers fresh and compelling arguments that illuminate motivations for individual and collective actions, and brings agency back into the historical equation. Wright argues that the Colonial rebellion was in part sparked by destabilizing British monetary policy that threatened many with financial insolvency; that in areas without modern financial institutions and practices, dueling was a rational means of protecting one's creditworthiness; that the principle-agent problem led to the institutionalization of the U.S. Constitution's system of checks and balances; and that a lack of information and education induced women to shift from active business owners to passive investors. Economists, historians, and political scientists alike will be interested in this strikingly novel and compelling recasting of our nation's formative decades.
Book Synopsis Physician of the American Revolution by : Richard L. Blanco
Download or read book Physician of the American Revolution written by Richard L. Blanco and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1979, this was the first biography of Jonathan Potts, a prominent Pennsylvania Quaker and physician who served in the Continental army during the Revolutionary War. It was also the first study to be published since 1931 of the role of medical doctors in the northern campaigns. No detailed memoir by an army physician or surgeon has survived to document the conditions they faced. The military career of Dr. Potts, reconstructed here from source materials, including first-hand accounts by Potts and his contemporaries provides considerable information to fill this historical gap.
Download or read book Pennsylvania History written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Book reviews and Book notices.".
Book Synopsis The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle by : University of Pennsylvania. General Alumni Society
Download or read book The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle written by University of Pennsylvania. General Alumni Society and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Economy of British America, 1607-1789 by : John J. McCusker
Download or read book The Economy of British America, 1607-1789 written by John J. McCusker and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the American Revolution, the farmers and city-dwellers of British America had achieved, individually and collectively, considerable prosperity. The nature and extent of that success are still unfolding. In this first comprehensive assessment of where research on prerevolutionary economy stands, what it seeks to achieve, and how it might best proceed, the authors discuss those areas in which traditional work remains to be done and address new possibilities for a 'new economic history.'
Book Synopsis The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle by :
Download or read book The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Industrial Development in the Schuykill Valley by : Frank Ernest Williams
Download or read book Industrial Development in the Schuykill Valley written by Frank Ernest Williams and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Business and Economic History by : Business History Conference
Download or read book Business and Economic History written by Business History Conference and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Routledge Library Editions: America: Revolution and Civil War by : Various Authors
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: America: Revolution and Civil War written by Various Authors and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 3476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volumes in this set, originally published between 1967 and 2011, available as ebooks for the first time, include succinct, accessible books on two of the most important periods of American history which offer concise treatment of these major historical topics, as well as some lengthier, finest single-volume studies of the American Civil and Revolutionary Wars ever written and an outstanding reference tool in a 2 volume Encyclopedia. Among other things they: Bring central themes and problems into sharper focus. Discuss the pivotal roles played by Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln. Examine the role of medical doctors in the northern campaigns during the revolutionary war. Elucidate the character of the underlying moral and political problem of slavery. Discuss the social and political experience of the civil war whilst examining the centrality of what happened on the battlefield. Evaluate the legacy of the Civil War for America and for the world and emphasize its relationship to many of the dominating themes of modern history – democracy, freedom, equality and nationalism.
Book Synopsis Pennsylvania Iron Manufacture in the Eighteenth Century by : Arthur Cecil Bining
Download or read book Pennsylvania Iron Manufacture in the Eighteenth Century written by Arthur Cecil Bining and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Valley Forge National Historical Park, General Management Plan by :
Download or read book Valley Forge National Historical Park, General Management Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dissertations in History, 1970-June 1980 by : Warren F. Kuehl
Download or read book Dissertations in History, 1970-June 1980 written by Warren F. Kuehl and published by Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio. This book was released on 1985 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
