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Transatlantic industrial revolution: the diffusion of textile technologies between Britain and America, 1790-1830s

Jeremy, David J.

Year: c1981.

Publisher: MIT Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

List of Illustrations and Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Note on Theory, Historiography, and Methodology

I Constraints on the Difusion of the Technologies

1 America's Manufacturing Potential and the State of British and American Textile Manufactures in 1790

2 Private and Public Protection in Britain: Secretivesness, Prohibitory Laws, and Patent Practices

3 Problems for Diffusion Arising from the Structure and Growth of the Technologies

II Diffusion of the Technologies: The First Three Stages

4 The Diffusion of New Cotton Spinning Technology, 1790-1812

5 The Diffusion of Cotton Power-Loom Weving Technology, 1810-1820s

6 The Diffusion of New Calico Printing Technology, 1809-1820s

7 The Diffusion of New Woolen Manufacturing Technology, 1790-1830

III Diffusion of the Technologies: The Impact of Aggregate Immigration

8 Profiles of Immigration into America from Britain's Textile Trades, 1770s-1831

9 Aggregate British Textile Immigration and the Growth of America's Textile Industries in the Early Nineteenth Century

IV American Modifications to the Imported Technologies

10 Modifications to the Imported Cotton Technology I: The Shaping of Waltham-System Innovations

11 Modifications to the Imported Cotton Technology II: The Shaping of Rhode Island-System Innovations

12 Modifications to the Imported Woolen Technology

V Reverse Flows

13 The Movement of American Innovations in Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Technologies to Britain

14 Conclusion: Some Perspectives on the Transatlantic Diffusion of Early Industrial Textile Technologies

Appendix A British Patent Specifications for Cotton and Woolen Textile Inventions (Mechanical) Published in the Repertory of Arts, 1794-1830

Appendix B British Textile Emigrants to the United States, 1773-1831, by Trade

Appendix C British Textile Workers Registered as Enemy Aliens during the War of 1812, by Trade

Appendix D Fixed Capital Investment, Capacity, and Employment in the U.S. Cotton and Woolen Industries, 1820

Glossary

Abbreviations in Notes and Bibliography

Notes

Sources of Illustrations

Bibliography

Index

reviews

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Title:

Transatlantic industrial revolution : the diffusion of textile technologies between Britain and America, 1790-1830s David J. Jeremy.

Author:

Jeremy, David J

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Transatlantic industrial revolution : the diffusion of textile technologies between Britain and America, 1790-1830s David J. Jeremy.
Jeremy, David J
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c1981.

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Subject Headings:

• Textile industry -- Great Britain -- Technological innovations -- History
• Diffusion of innovations -- United States -- History
• Diffusion of innovations -- Great Britain -- History
• Technology transfer -- History
• Textile industry -- United States -- Technological innovations -- History

Notes:

• Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of London, 1978.
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