Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry.(Book Review)
From: The Historian
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Date: 6/22/2005
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Author: Cain, Louis P.
Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry. By Lawrence A. Peskin. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 294. $49.95.)
Focusing on the Industrial Revolution and its aftermath has drawn attention from what went before it. In Colonial America, that included the discouragement of manufacturing as conscious public policy under English mercantilism. Lawrence A. Peskin's fascinating study begins with the first moves to ...
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