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Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers - Capital, Class and Revolution, 1830-1890 (Hardcover)
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Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers - Capital, Class and Revolution, 1830-1890 (Hardcover)
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Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers examines the emergence of a new
class of industrial entrepreneur and the world it confronted and
shaped. Historians are reluctant to examine nineteenth-century
American business leaders as a social group and this study helps
remedy the defect. This book interweaves a history of the social
and economic development of the largest centre of machine building
in nineteenth-century America with the dramatic political narrative
of sectional conflict, Civil War and Reconstruction. Crossing and
re-crossing the boundary between industrial and political history,
it throws new light on the process of industrialisation, the Civil
War conflict, and the contested governance of nineteenth-century
cities. While this study is firmly rooted in the experience of
Philadelphia's machine builders, its historiographic significance
extends to many of the important themes of mid-century American
history. By rejecting the conventional viewpoint that timid
manufacturers were conservative supporters of the plantation South
and insisting that workshop owners rejected slavery, this study
reinvigorates one of the Civil War's enduring interpretative
battles. Of interest to scholars of business, economic, social,
labour, education, urban and Civil War history, it will no doubt
stimulate further debate and add a new angle to our understanding
of nineteenth-century America.
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