Michael Brewster Folsom
Biographic Data
| ID | 1467595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Brewster Folsom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael Brewster |
| FAMILY NAME | Folsom |
| SIGNATURE | FOLSOM M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
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The Philosophy of Manufactures
The Philosophy of Manufactures
This work collects in a single volume often in their original form the primary texts in the American debate over industrialization between the Revolution the Civil War. These documents reflect the intellectual ideological forces behind the promotion of manufactures, as well as the skepticism resistance which the industrial capitalist aroused in the democratic agrarian new nation. collection demonstrates that there was a heated debate over the ind…
Roots of the American Working Class
A Mechanical People
The Pittsburgh Meeting, October 18-21, 1978
Organizational Notes THE PITTSBURGH MEETING, OCTOBER 18-21, 1978 Over 175 members registered for the twenty-first annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 18-21, 1978. The meeting was notable not only for the quality but also for the quantity of the scholarly papers presented; the number of papers necessitated, for the first time in the society’s history, the holding of simultaneous…
Books reviewed
Unemployment In History: Economic Thought and Public Policy. By John A. Garraty, New York: Harper & Row, 1978. xii, 273 pp. $15.00. We Were There: The Story of Working Women In America. By Barbara Mayer Wertheimer. New York: Pantheon Books, 1977. xx, 427 pp. $15.95. Labor and The American Revolution. By Philip S. Foner. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976. xi, 256 pp. $14.95. The Factory Girls: A Collection of Writings on Life and Struggles in th…
Books reviewed
Serfs, Peasants, and Socialists. By William Derman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. x, 282 pp. $15.00. The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth‐Century City. By Joan Wallach Scott. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974. xiv, 239 pp. $10.00 The Anzin Company, 1800–1833: Big Business in the Early Stages of the French Industrial Revolution. By Reed G. Geiger. Philadelphia, Universi…
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Books reviewed
Serfs, Peasants, and Socialists. By William Derman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. x, 282 pp. $15.00. The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth‐Century City. By Joan Wallach Scott. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974. xiv, 239 pp. $10.00 The Anzin Company, 1800–1833: Big Business in the Early Stages of the French Industrial Revolution. By Reed G. Geiger. Philadelphia, Universi…
Books reviewed
Unemployment In History: Economic Thought and Public Policy. By John A. Garraty, New York: Harper & Row, 1978. xii, 273 pp. $15.00. We Were There: The Story of Working Women In America. By Barbara Mayer Wertheimer. New York: Pantheon Books, 1977. xx, 427 pp. $15.95. Labor and The American Revolution. By Philip S. Foner. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976. xi, 256 pp. $14.95. The Factory Girls: A Collection of Writings on Life and Struggles in th…
The Pittsburgh Meeting, October 18-21, 1978
Organizational Notes THE PITTSBURGH MEETING, OCTOBER 18-21, 1978 Over 175 members registered for the twenty-first annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 18-21, 1978. The meeting was notable not only for the quality but also for the quantity of the scholarly papers presented; the number of papers necessitated, for the first time in the society’s history, the holding of simultaneous…
Roots of the American Working Class
A Mechanical People
The Philosophy of Manufactures
The Philosophy of Manufactures
This work collects in a single volume often in their original form the primary texts in the American debate over industrialization between the Revolution the Civil War. These documents reflect the intellectual ideological forces behind the promotion of manufactures, as well as the skepticism resistance which the industrial capitalist aroused in the democratic agrarian new nation. collection demonstrates that there was a heated debate over the ind…
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