Overview
The revolutionary rhetoric of the 18th century hastened the demise of indentured servitude, however, and national independence reinforced the legal status of slavery and increasingly defined manual labor as ""dependent"" and racially coded. Bezis-Selfa highlights the importance of slave labour to early American industrial development. Research in documents from the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries led Bezis-Selfa to accounts of the labour of African-Americans, indentured servants, new immigrants and others. Their stories inform his narrative of more than 200 years of American history.
Full Product Details
Author: John Bezis-Selfa
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.907kg
ISBN: 9780801439933
ISBN 10: 0801439930
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 30 October 2003
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
John Bezis-Selfa's study of managers and workers in American iron industry before 1840 offers a refreshingly new perspective on a familiar subject. Quickly dispensing with matters of technology, capital investment, and business organization, the author clusters his research on some forty sites in two broadly compared regions Pennsylvania/New Jersey and Virginia/Maryland all devotes most of his analysis to demonstrating the social relationships of the mines, forges, and furnaces that dotted the countryside. The Rich detail from numerous account books and troves of correspondence buttresses three general arguments. Cathy Matson, University of Delaware, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, April 2005
John Bez s-Selfa's study of managers and workers in American iron industry before 1840 offers a refreshingly new perspective on a familiar subject. Quickly dispensing with matters of technology, capital investment, and business organization, the author clusters his research on some forty sites in two broadly compared regions-Pennsylvania/New Jersey and Virginia/Maryland-all devotes most of his analysis to demonstrating the social relationships of the mines, forges, and furnaces that dotted the countryside. The Rich detail from numerous account books and troves of correspondence buttresses three general arguments. -Cathy Matson, University of Delaware, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, April 2005
John Bezis-Selfa's study of managers and workers in American iron industry before 1840 offers a refreshingly new perspective on a familiar subject. Quickly dispensing with matters of technology, capital investment, and business organization, the author clusters his research on some forty sites in two broadly compared regions-Pennsylvania/New Jersey and Virginia/Maryland-all devotes most of his analysis to demonstrating the social relationships of the mines, forges, and furnaces that dotted the countryside. The Rich detail from numerous account books and troves of correspondence buttresses three general arguments. -Cathy Matson, University of Delaware, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, April 2005
Author Information
John Bezís-Selfa is Associate Professor of History at Wheaton College.
