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Transatlantic industrial revolution: the diffusion of textile technologies between Britain and America, 1790-1830s
David J. Jeremy
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Frontmatter (page N/A)
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List of Illustrations and Figures (page xii)
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List of Tables (page xiv)
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Acknowledgments (page xvi)
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Introduction: A Note on Theory, Historiography, and Methodology (page 2)
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I Constraints on the Difusion of the Technologies (page 8)1 America's Manufacturing Potential and the State of British and American Textile Manufactures in 1790 (page 8)
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2 Private and Public Protection in Britain: Secretivesness, Prohibitory Laws, and Patent Practices (page 36)
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3 Problems for Diffusion Arising from the Structure and Growth of the Technologies (page 50)
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II Diffusion of the Technologies: The First Three Stages (page 74)
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4 The Diffusion of New Cotton Spinning Technology, 1790-1812 (page 76)
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5 The Diffusion of Cotton Power-Loom Weving Technology, 1810-1820s (page 92)
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6 The Diffusion of New Calico Printing Technology, 1809-1820s (page 104)
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7 The Diffusion of New Woolen Manufacturing Technology, 1790-1830 (page 118)
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III Diffusion of the Technologies: The Impact of Aggregate Immigration (page 142)
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8 Profiles of Immigration into America from Britain's Textile Trades, 1770s-1831 (page 144)
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9 Aggregate British Textile Immigration and the Growth of America's Textile Industries in the Early Nineteenth Century (page 160)
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IV American Modifications to the Imported Technologies (page 176)
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10 Modifications to the Imported Cotton Technology I: The Shaping of Waltham-System Innovations (page 180)
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11 Modifications to the Imported Cotton Technology II: The Shaping of Rhode Island-System Innovations (page 204)
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12 Modifications to the Imported Woolen Technology (page 218)
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V Reverse Flows (page 240)13 The Movement of American Innovations in Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Technologies to Britain (page 240)
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14 Conclusion: Some Perspectives on the Transatlantic Diffusion of Early Industrial Textile Technologies (page 252)
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Appendix A British Patent Specifications for Cotton and Woolen Textile Inventions (Mechanical) Published in the Repertory of Arts, 1794-1830 (page 264)
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Appendix B British Textile Emigrants to the United States, 1773-1831, by Trade (page 268)
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Appendix C British Textile Workers Registered as Enemy Aliens during the War of 1812, by Trade (page 274)
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Appendix D Fixed Capital Investment, Capacity, and Employment in the U.S. Cotton and Woolen Industries, 1820 (page 276)
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Glossary (page 284)
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Abbreviations in Notes and Bibliography (page 296)
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Notes (page 298)
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Sources of Illustrations (page 338)
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Bibliography (page 340)
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Index (page 358)
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Published: c1981
Publisher: The MIT Press
- 9780262100229 (hardcover)