TRANSATLANTIC INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: THE DIFFUSION OF TEXTILE TECHNOLOGIES BETWEEN BRITAIN AND AMERICA, 1790-1830S
Written by David J. Jeremy
Published by The MIT Press
in 1981
ISBN: 0631127852
- Categorised in:
- INDUSTRY
- INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
- INDUSTRIAL HISTORY
- USA
- TEXTILES
TRANSATLANTIC INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: THE DIFFUSION OF TEXTILE TECHNOLOGIES BETWEEN BRITAIN AND AMERICA, 1790-1830S
Written by David J. Jeremy.
Stock no. 2136384
1st USA.
1981.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
Oblong format. Green cloth with white title to spine. B/w illustrations and photos. ISBN: 0631127852. Slight bowing to front cover. Spine bumped and rubbed, light scratch mark to front cover. Marks to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with some tears/chips.
Front cover
Contents
- List of Illustrations and Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: A Note on Theory, Historiography, and Methodology
- PART I: Constraints on the Diffusion of the Technologies
- America's Manufacturing Potential and the State of British and American Textile Manufatures in 1790
- Private and Public Protection in Britain: Secretiveness, Prohibitory Laws, and Patent Practices
- Problems for Diffusion Arising from the Structure and Growth of the Technologies
- PART II: Diffusion of the Technologies: The First Three Stages
- Introduction
- The Diffusion of New Cotton Spinning Technology, 1790-1812
- The Diffusion of Cotton Power-Loom Weaving Technology, 1810-1820s
- The Diffusion of New Woolen Manufacturing Technology, 1790-1830
- Transmission of the Technologies: Some Conclusions
- PART III: Diffusion of the Technologies: The Impact of Aggregate Immigration
- Introduction
- Profiles of Immigration into America from Britain's Textile Trades, 1770s-1831
- Aggregate British Textile Immigration and the Growth of America's Textile Industries in the Early Nineteenth Century
- PART IV: American Modifications to the Imported Technologies
- Introduction
- Modifications to the Imported Cotton Technology I: The Shaping of Waltham-System Innovations
- Modifications to the Imported Cotton Technology II: The Shaping of Rhode Island-System Innovations
- Modifications to the Imported Woolen Technology
- PART V: Reverse Flows
- The Movement of American Innovations in Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Technologies in Britain
- Conclusion: Some Perspectives on the Transatlantic Diffusion of Early Industrial Textile Technologies
- Appendix A: British Patent Specifications for Cotton and Woolen Textil Inventions (Mechanical) Published in the Repertory of Arts, 1794-1830
- Appendix B: British Textile Emigrants to the United States, 1773-1831, by trade
- Appendix C: British Textile Workers Registered as Enemy Aliens during the War of 1812, by trade
- Appendix D: Fixed Capital Investment, Capacity, and Employment in U.S. Cotton and Woolen Industries, 1820
- Glossary
- Abbreviations in Notes and Bibliography
- Notes
- Sources of Illustrations
- Bibliography
- Index