Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn (ePub)
Paul Revere's ride to warn the colonial militia of the British march on Lexington and Concord is a...
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Paul Revere's ride to warn the colonial militia of the British march on Lexington and Concord is a legendary contribution to the American Revolution.Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawnreveals another side of this American hero's life: that of a transformational entrepreneur instrumental in the industrial revolution.
Robert Martello combines a biographical examination of Revere with a probing study of the new nation's business and technological climate. A silversmith prior to the Revolution and heralded for his patriotism during the war, Revere aspired to higher social status within the fledgling United States. To that end, he shifted away from artisan silversmithing toward larger, more involved manufacturing ventures such as ironworking, bronze casting, and copper sheet rolling. Drawing extensively on the Revere Family Papers, Martello explores Revere's vibrant career successes and failures, social networks, business practices, and the groundbreaking metallurgical technologies he developed and employed. Revere's commercial ventures epitomized what Martello termsproto-industrialization, a transitional state between craft work and mass manufacture that characterizes the broader, fast-changing landscape of the American economy. Martello uses Revere as a lens to view the social, economic, and technological milieu of early America while demonstrating Revere's pivotal role in both the American Revolution and the rise of industrial America.
"Martello succeeds superbly in using Paul Revere as a lens to view the social, economic, and technological landscape of early America ... Revere's adept transitions are matched only by Martello's adept retelling of them. Highly recommended." -Choice
Robert Martello is an associate professor of the history of science and technology at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering.
- Autor: Robert Martello
- 2010, Englisch
- Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
- ISBN-10: 1421401002
- ISBN-13: 9781421401003
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2010
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- Größe: 4.79 MB
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