Stella & Rose's Books

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