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Trade ReviewThis study contains a wealth of information and surprises. Choice 2007 An excellent, up-to-date, synthetic volume with strong themes and evidence. -- Ross Thomson EH.Net 2007 An excellent synthesis of decades of scholarship. -- Anne Kelly Knowles Technology and Culture 2007 This book will be an important volume for specialists. -- Lawrence A. Peskin Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2007 Meyer's book should prove invaluable to scholars of early American industrialization, and particularly to historians of technology. -- Sean Patrick Adams American Historical Review 2008 A first-rate scholarly synthesis that also demonstrates considerable new research. -- David A. Hounshell Journal of American History 2008 Elegantly spanning the fields of geography, sociology, business history, and the history of technology, this book should readily appeal. -- Angelina Long Industrial Archaeology 2007
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Machinists' Traces
Part I: The Formation of the Networks, 1790-1820
1. Iron Foundries Become Early Hubs of Machinist Networks
2. A Networked Community Built by Cotton Textile Machinists
3. The Federal Armories and Private Firearms Firms Operate in Open Networks
Part II: The Elaboration of the Networks, 1820-1860
4. Iron Foundries Rule the Heavy Capital Equipment Industry
5. Networked Machinists Build Locomotives
6. Resilient Cotton Textile Machinist Networks
7. The Cradles of the Metalworking Machinery Industry
8. Machine Tool Networks
9. Machinists' Networks Forge the Pivotal Producer Durables Industry
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