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ENGINES OF ENTERPRISE
AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND |
| By: |
Peter Temin |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£30.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0674009843 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780674009844 |
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| Publisher: |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 2002 |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Description: |
From an inauspicious beginning New England went on to lead the US in its transformation to an industrial economy. When the rest of the country caught up, New England reinvented itself as a leader in the economy of the information society. This book tells the story in a sequence of narrative essays. |
| Synopsis: |
New England's economy has a history as dramatic as any in the world. From an inauspicious beginnings - as immigration ground to a halt in the 18th century - New England went on to lead the United States in its transformation from an agrarian to an industrial economy. And when the rest of the country caught up in th emid-20th century, New England reinvented itself as a leader in the complex economy of the information society. This book tells this dramatic story in a sequence of narrative essays written by prominent historians and economists. These essays chart the changing fortunes of entrepreneurs and venturers, businessmen and inventors, and common folk toiling in fields, in factories, and in air-conditioned offices. The authors describe how, short of staples crops, colonial New Englanders turned to the sea and built an empire; and how the region became the earliest home of the textile industry as commercial fortunes underwrote new industries in the 19th century. They show us the region as it grew ahead of the rest of the country and as the rest of the United States caught up.And they trace the transformation of New England's products and exports from cotton textiles and machine tools to such intangible goods as education and software. Concluding short essays also put forward surprising but persuasive arguments - for instance, that slavery, while not prominent in colonial New England, was a critical part of the economy; and that the federal government played a crucial role in the development of the region's industrial skills. |
| Illustrations: |
23 halftones, 2 linecuts, 13 digital line illustrations, 7 tables |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Harvard University Press |
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Returnable |
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