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1 online resource (xiii, 352 pages) : illustrations |
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Notable LowellDescendants; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The NewIndustrial System; Chapter 1. Occasionem Cognosce(Know the Opportunity): Motto of the Lowell Family; Chapter 2. A Privileged Education; Chapter3. The Young Merchant: 1793-1802; Chapter 4. The Brothers Lowell; Chapter 5. Francis and His Sisters; Chapter 6. The Merchant King: 1803-1808; Chapter 7. Mr. Jefferson's Embargo; Chapter 8. A Proper Bostonianon a Grand Tour; Chapter 9. American TextileIndustry Before 1814; Chapter 10. Return to Boston; Chapter 11. The Boston Manufacturing Company; Chapter 12. The Tariff of 1816 |
| Summary |
After the Revolutionary War, despite political independence, the United States still relied on other countries for manufactured goods. Francis Cabot Lowell, born in Massachusetts in 1775, was one of the principal investors in building the India Wharf andthe shops and warehouses close to the harbor. His work was instrumental in establishing domestic industry for the United States and brought the industrial revolution to the United States. From 1810 to the start of the War of 1812, he traveled through Great Britain where he saw the tremendous changes caused by the industrial revolution, starting |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Lowell, Francis Cabot, 1775-1817.
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Lowell, Francis Cabot, 1775-1817 fast |
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Industrialists -- Massachusetts -- Biography
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Textile industry -- Massachusetts -- History
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Industrial revolution -- United States
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Corporate & Business History.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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Industrial revolution
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Industrialists
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Textile industry
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Massachusetts
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United States
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collective biographies.
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780739146859 |
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0739146858 |
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128292186X |
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9781282921863 |
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9786612921865 |
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6612921862 |
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