Industrializing Antebellum America
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Industrializing Antebellum America
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Author : B. Tucker
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-30
Industrializing Antebellum America written by B. Tucker and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with History categories.
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.
Industrializing Antebellum America
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Author : B. Tucker
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2014-01-14
Industrializing Antebellum America written by B. Tucker and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-14 with History categories.
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.
Industrializing Antebellum America
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Author : B. Tucker
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2008-10-14
Industrializing Antebellum America written by B. Tucker and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-14 with History categories.
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.
Technology Innovation And Southern Industrialization
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Author : Susanna Delfino
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2008
Technology Innovation And Southern Industrialization written by Susanna Delfino and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Business & Economics categories.
Because of its strong agrarian roots, the South has typically been viewed as a region not favorably disposed to innovation and technology. Yet innovation was never absent from industrialization in this part of the United States. From the early nineteenth century onward, southerners were as eager as other Americans to embrace technology as a path to modernity. This volume features seven essays that range widely across the region and its history, from the antebellum era to the present, to assess the role of innovations presumed lacking by most historians. Offering a challenging interpretation of industrialization in the South, these writings show that the benefits of innovations had to be carefully weighed against the costs to both industry and society. The essays consider a wide range of innovative technologies. Some examine specific industries in subregions: steamboats in the lower Mississippi valley, textile manufacturing in Georgia and Arkansas, coal mining in Virginia, and sugar planting and processing in Louisiana. Others consider the role of technology in South Carolina textile mills around the turn of the twentieth century, the electrification of the Tennessee valley, and telemedicine in contemporary Arizona--marking the expansion of the region into the southwestern Sunbelt. Together, these articles show that southerners set significant limitations on what technological innovations they were willing to adopt, particularly in a milieu where slaveholding agriculture had shaped the allocation of resources. They also reveal how scarcity of capital and continued reliance on agriculture influenced that allocation into the twentieth century, relieved eventually by federal spending during the Depression and its aftermath that sparked the Sunbelt South's economic boom. Technology, Innovation, and Southern Industrialization clearly demonstrates that the South's embrace of technological innovation in the modern era doesn't mark a radical change from the past but rather signals that such pursuits were always part of the region's economy. It deflates the myth of southern agrarianism while expanding the scope of antebellum American industrialization beyond the Northeast and offers new insights into the relationship of southern economic history to the region's society and politics.
Commerce And Labor
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Author : Carville V. Earle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Commerce And Labor written by Carville V. Earle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Industries categories.
The Consequences Of Cotton In Antebellum America
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Author : William J. Phalen
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-04-02
The Consequences Of Cotton In Antebellum America written by William J. Phalen and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-02 with History categories.
In 1846, political economist Karl Marx wrote that "without cotton, you have no modern industry." Indeed, before the American Civil War, cotton brought wealth, power and prosperity to both America and Europe. Giant industries in the northern U.S., extensive shipping networks up and down the Atlantic Coast and to Europe, new inventions and revised applications of old machines--all sprang from the success of King Cotton. This thoughtful study traces the impact of southern cotton on most of the important facets of life in antebellum America, including employment, international relations, agriculture, shipping, the U.S. economy, Native American relations, and the subjugation of humans. This one plant fashioned the way of life of the South and profoundly affected the destiny of the entire American people.
A History Of Banking In Antebellum America
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Author : Howard Bodenhorn
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-02-13
A History Of Banking In Antebellum America written by Howard Bodenhorn and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-02-13 with Business & Economics categories.
This history focuses on the credit generating function of American banks. It demonstrates that banks aggressively promoted economic development rather than passively following its course. Using previously unexploited data, Professor Bodenhorn shows that banks helped to advance the development of industrialization. Additionally, he shows that banks formed long-distance relationships that promoted geographic capital mobility, thereby assuring that short-term capital was directed in socially desirable directions. He then traces those institutional and legal developments that allowed for this capital mobility.
A Deplorable Scarcity
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Author : Fred Bateman
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2017-10-10
A Deplorable Scarcity written by Fred Bateman and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-10 with History categories.
In this major reexamination of the southern industrial economy and its failure to progress during the antebellum period, Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss show that slavery and its consequences were not alone in inhibiting industrialization. They argue, rather, that the planters hesitated to invest in high-risk enterprises and worried that industrialization would undermine their authority. Underpinning this study is a massive data collection from census reports, which permits an economic analysis that was previously not feasible.
The Roots Of American Industrialization
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Author : David R. Meyer
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2003-05-21
The Roots Of American Industrialization written by David R. Meyer and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-21 with Business & Economics categories.
Farms that were on poor soil and distant from markets declined, whereas other farms successfully adjusted production as rural and urban markets expanded and as Midwestern agricultural products flowed eastward after 1840. Rural and urban demand for manufactures in the East supported diverse industrial development and prosperous rural areas and burgeoning cities supplied increasing amounts of capital for investment.
The Dawn Of Innovation
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Author : Charles R. Morris
language : en
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Release Date : 2012-10-23
The Dawn Of Innovation written by Charles R. Morris and has been published by PublicAffairs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-23 with History categories.
In the thirty years after the Civil War, the United States blew by Great Britain to become the greatest economic power in world history. That is a well-known period in history, when titans like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan walked the earth. But as Charles R. Morris shows us, the platform for that spectacular growth spurt was built in the first half of the century. By the 1820s, America was already the world's most productive manufacturer, and the most intensely commercialized society in history. The War of 1812 jumpstarted the great New England cotton mills, the iron centers in Connecticut and Pennsylvania, and the forges around the Great Lakes. In the decade after the War, the Midwest was opened by entrepreneurs. In this beautifully illustrated book, Morris paints a vivid panorama of a new nation buzzing with the work of creation. He also points out the parallels and differences in the nineteenth century American/British standoff and that between China and America today.