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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271040351
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Making Arms in the Machine Age: Philadelphia's Frankford Arsenal, 1816Ð1870 written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James J. Farley
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271010007
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Making Arms in the Machine Age written by James J. Farley and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Arms in the Machine Age traces the growth and development of the United States Arsenal at Frankford, Pennsylvania, from its origin in 1816 to 1870. During this period, the arsenal evolved from a small post where skilled workers hand-produced small arms ammunition to a full-scale industrial complex employing a large civilian workforce. James Farley uses the history of the arsenal to examine larger issues including the changing technology of early nineteenth-century warfare, the impact of new technology on the United States Army, and the reactions of workers and their families and communities to the coming of industrialization. Shortly after the War of 1812, the U. S. Army founded several new arsenals, including Frankford, to build up supplies of arms and ammunition then in short supply. At that time, the Army was held in low regard because of its perceived poor performance in the war, so the arrival of arsenals was not welcomed. By 1870, however, the arsenal at Frankford had integrated itself into the community and become a valued and respected member of it. Farley argues that the Ordnance Department of the U. S. Army created an industrial system of manufacture at Frankford well in advance of private industry. He also contends that the evolution of the Army into an employer of a large-scale civilian workforce helped to end the isolation and anti-militarism that plagued it after the War of 1812. Farley's study joins recent work in the history of technology, such as Judith McGaw's That Wonderful Machine, that seeks to understand technological change in its social and cultural context.
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ISBN 13 : 9781558560079
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Armsmakers of Philadelphia written by and published by . This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A composite directory of arms makers of Philadelphia. The Philadelphia arms trade had significant impact on America through the Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the Civil War. Guns made there helped to win the West, wherever that elusive West may be, from Western PA to Ohio, through to California.
Author : Lindsay Schakenbach Regele
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421425254
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Manufacturing Advantage written by Lindsay Schakenbach Regele and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ultimately, the book reveals the complex link between government intervention and private initiative in a country struggling to create a political economy that balanced military competence with commercial needs.
Author : James MacGregor Burns
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453245189
Total Pages : 859 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book The Vineyard of Liberty, 1787–1863 written by James MacGregor Burns and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize winner looks at the course of American history from the birth of the Constitution to the dawn of the Civil War. The years between 1787 and 1863 witnessed the development of the American Nation—its society, politics, customs, culture, and, most important, the development of liberty. Burns explores the key events in the republic’s early decades, as well as the roles of heroes from Washington to Lincoln and of lesser-known figures. Captivating and insightful, Burns’s history combines the color and texture of early American life with meticulous scholarship. Focusing on the tensions leading up to the Civil War, Burns brilliantly shows how Americans became divided over the meaning of Liberty. Vineyard of Liberty is a sweeping and engrossing narrative of America’s formative years.
Author : Robert Edward Gardner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book American Arms and Arms Makers written by Robert Edward Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to bring together biographical data pertaining to the American arms craftsmen and a resume of their contributions to the nation's armament.
Author : James B. Whisker
Publisher : Selinsgrove : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Arms Makers of Pennsylvania written by James B. Whisker and published by Selinsgrove : Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey, with hundreds of illustrations, of the arms making industry in Pennsylvania from its beginnings until about 1900. it focuses on the Pennsylvania long (Kentucky) rifle, and identifies the primary schools of gun making and major technological developments. Illustrated.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Edward Gardner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Small Arms Makers written by Robert Edward Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers American and foreign makers, with illus. showing European marks.
Author : James A. Huston
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160899140
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (991 download)
Download or read book The Sinews of War written by James A. Huston and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1966 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lindsay Schakenbach Regele
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421425270
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Manufacturing Advantage written by Lindsay Schakenbach Regele and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How manufacturing textiles and guns transformed the United States from colonial dependent to military power. In 1783, the Revolutionary War drew to a close, but America was still threatened by enemies at home and abroad. The emerging nation faced tax rebellions, Indian warfare, and hostilities with France and England. Its arsenal—a collection of hand-me-down and beat-up firearms—was woefully inadequate, and its manufacturing sector was weak. In an era when armies literally froze in the field, military preparedness depended on blankets and jackets, the importation of which the British Empire had coordinated for over 200 years. Without a ready supply of guns, the new nation could not defend itself; without its own textiles, it was at the economic mercy of the British. Domestic industry offered the best solution for true economic and military independence. In Manufacturing Advantage, Lindsay Schakenbach Regele shows how the US government promoted the industrial development of textiles and weapons to defend the country from hostile armies—and hostile imports. Moving from the late 1700s through the Mexican-American War, Schakenbach Regele argues that both industries developed as a result of what she calls “national security capitalism”: a mixed enterprise system in which government agents and private producers brokered solutions to the problems of war and international economic disparities. War and State Department officials played particularly key roles in the emergence of American industry, facilitating arms makers and power loom weavers in the quest to develop industrial resources. And this defensive strategy, Schakenbach Regele reveals, eventually evolved to promote westward expansion, as well as America’s growing commercial and territorial empire. Examining these issues through the lens of geopolitics, Manufacturing Advantage places the rise of industry in the United States in the context of territorial expansion, diplomacy, and warfare. Ultimately, the book reveals the complex link between government intervention and private initiative in a country struggling to create a political economy that balanced military competence with commercial needs.
Author : Harold Leslie Peterson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486428024
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The American Sword, 1775-1945 written by Harold Leslie Peterson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2003-05-26 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first book devoted exclusively to the subject, this invaluable volume will aid collectors, curators, historians and anyone interested in weaponry to identify American swords. Enhanced with more than 400 illustrations from catalogs, manuals, and other rare documents, the book classifies and describes all major types of swords worn by the U.S. armed forces, cadets, and diplomats since the American Revolution to the end of World War II. Also included is a directory of American sword makers, an essay on the evolution of scabbards and methods of wearing swords, a discussion of sword nomenclature, and an appendix titled "American Silver Mounted Swords 1700-1815," which served as a catalog of an exhibition held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1955. This important addition describes small swords, sabers and hunting swords, and unique silver mounted swords. An invaluable guide to collectors and dealers, the comprehensive reference will delight students of weaponry and arms enthusiasts. Unabridged republication of the edition originally published by Robert Halter, The River House, New Hope, Pennsylvania, 1954. Appendix privately printed in Washington D.C., 1955. Index. 289 halftones; 117 black-and-white illustrations." -- publisher description (November 2006).
Author : Clayton E. Cramer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Lock, Stock, and Barrel written by Clayton E. Cramer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative book debunks the myth that American gun culture was intentionally created by gun makers and demonstrates that gun ownership and use have been a core part of American society since our colonial origins. Revisionist historians argue that American gun culture and manufacturing are relatively recent developments. They further claim that widespread gun violence was largely absent from early American history because guns of all types, and especially handguns, were rare before 1848. According to these revisionists, American gun culture was the creation of the first mass production gun manufacturers, who used clever marketing to sell guns to people who neither wanted nor needed them. However, as proven in this first scholarly history of "gun culture" in early America, gun ownership and use have in fact been central to American society from its very beginnings. Lock, Stock, and Barrel: The Origins of American Gun Culture shows that gunsmithing and gun manufacturing were important parts of the economies of the colonies and the early republic and explains how the American gun industry helped to create our modern world of precision mass production and high wages for workers.
Author : James MacGregor Burns
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 148043020X
Total Pages : 2467 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The American Experiment written by James MacGregor Burns and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 2467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War. In these three volumes, Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winner James MacGregor Burns chronicles with depth and narrative panache the most significant cultural, economic, and political events of American history. In The Vineyard of Liberty, he combines the color and texture of early American life with meticulous scholarship. Focusing on the tensions leading up to the Civil War, Burns brilliantly shows how Americans became divided over the meaning of Liberty. In The Workshop of Democracy, Burns explores more than a half-century of dramatic growth and transformation of the American landscape, through the addition of dozens of new states, the shattering tragedy of the First World War, the explosion of industry, and, in the end, the emergence of the United States as a new global power. And in The Crosswinds of Freedom, Burns offers an articulate and incisive examination of the US during its rise to become the world’s sole superpower—through the Great Depression, the Second World War, the Cold War, and the rapid pace of technological change that gave rise to the “American Century.”
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Genealogical & Local History Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Confederate Veteran written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
