"While much has been written about the industrial revolution,"
writes Lawrence Peskin, "we rarely read about industrial
revolutionaries." This absence, he explains, reflects the
preoccupation of both classical and Marxist economics with
impersonal forces rather than with individuals. In Manufacturing
Revolution Peskin deviates from both dominant paradigms by closely
examining the words and deeds of individual Americans who made
things in their own shops, who met in small groups to promote
industrialization, and who, on the local level, strove for economic
independence.
In speeches, petitions, books, newspaper articles, club
meetings, and coffee--house conversations, they fervently discussed
the need for large-scale American manufacturing a half-century
before the Boston Associates built their first factory. Peskin
shows how these economic pioneers launched a discourse that
continued for decades, linking industrialization to the cause of
independence and guiding the new nation along the path of economic
ambition. Based upon extensive research in both manuscript and
printed sources from the period between 1760 and 1830, this book
will be of interest to historians of the early republic and
economic historians as well as to students of technology, business,
and industry.
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