Industrializing antebellum America
Subtitle: the rise of manufacturing entrepreneurs in the early republic
By: Barbara M. Tucker, Kenneth H. Tucker, Jr.
Contributors: Tucker, Kenneth H.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Businesspeople -- United States -- Biography; Industrialists -- United States -- Biography; Entrepreneurship -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Colt family values; title: The education of Samuel Colt; title: Samuel Colt : from industry to American empire; title: The Slaters of England and New England; title: John Fox and Horatio Nelson Slater : paternalism, philanthropy, and the disciplinary society; title: Amos and Abbott Lawrence : philanthropy and politics in antebellum America; title: Amos Adams Lawrence : the "puritan warrior" and the destiny of America.