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Author:   David R. Meyer
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition:   annotated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780801884719

ISBN 10:   0801884713
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   14 February 2007
Recommended Age:   From 17
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Machinists' Traces Part I: The Formation of the Networks, 1790-1820 1. Iron Foundries Become Early Hubs of Machinist Networks 2. A Networked Community Built by Cotton Textile Machinists 3. The Federal Armories and Private Firearms Firms Operate in Open Networks Part II: The Elaboration of the Networks, 1820-1860 4. Iron Foundries Rule the Heavy Capital Equipment Industry 5. Networked Machinists Build Locomotives 6. Resilient Cotton Textile Machinist Networks 7. The Cradles of the Metalworking Machinery Industry 8. Machine Tool Networks 9. Machinists' Networks Forge the Pivotal Producer Durables Industry Abbreviations Notes Essay on Sources Index

Reviews

An excellent book about the origin of antebellum machinist networks and their profound effect on U.S. industrialization across a wide range of industries. In focusing on the machinists and not just the machines, it advances our understanding of technological change. - Ross D. Thomson, University of Vermont, author of The Path to Mechanized Shoe Production in the United States

This study contains a wealth of information and surprises. Choice 2007 An excellent, up-to-date, synthetic volume with strong themes and evidence. -- Ross Thomson EH.Net 2007 An excellent synthesis of decades of scholarship. -- Anne Kelly Knowles Technology and Culture 2007 This book will be an important volume for specialists. -- Lawrence A. Peskin Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2007 Meyer's book should prove invaluable to scholars of early American industrialization, and particularly to historians of technology. -- Sean Patrick Adams American Historical Review 2008 A first-rate scholarly synthesis that also demonstrates considerable new research. -- David A. Hounshell Journal of American History 2008 Elegantly spanning the fields of geography, sociology, business history, and the history of technology, this book should readily appeal. -- Angelina Long Industrial Archaeology 2007

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David R. Meyer teaches sociology and urban studies at Brown University.

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