Manufacturing advantage : war, the state, and the origins of American industry, 1776-1848 /

"The Revolutionary War has been won, and the newly independent nation is fraught with anxieties--threatened by enemies at home and abroad. In Manufacturing Advantage, Lindsay Schakenbach Regele shows how the government (especially the Departments of State and War) promoted industrial developmen...

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Main Author: Schakenbach Regele, Lindsay, 1984- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
Series:Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • "Our naked troops"
  • The political economy of guns and textiles
  • Embargo and war
  • Financing industry through Florida
  • Managing new markets
  • Industrial manifest destiny
  • Conclusion.