1st Edition
A Technical and Business Revolution American Woolens to 1832
By Elizabeth Hitz
Copyright 1986
422 Pages
by
Routledge
422 Pages
by
Routledge
422 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title, first published in 1986, develops the story of American woollen manufacture reaching far back in time to establish the very traditional nature of the fabrication of woollen cloths. Although traditional techniques changed slowly, particularly in England, circumstances and conditions changed rapidly in the United States during the Napoleonic Wars. Americans had more surplus capital to... Read more
Introduction; 1. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Background 2. The Embryo Conceived: American Manufacturing Beginnings, 1787-1812 3. An Overview of American Woolen Manufacture 4. A Technical Revolution: Mechanization of Woolen Manufacture 5. A Business Revolution: Toward More Rational Business Practices; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography
Biography
Elizabeth Hitz (Author)
