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Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industry, 1790–1840

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2016

LINDSAY SCHAKENBACH REGELE*
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Lindsay Schakenbach Regele is an assistant professor of history at Miami University, Ohio. She received her PhD from Brown University in 2015. E-mail: regelels@miamioh.edu.

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Balogh, Brian. A Government out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth Century America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Ben-Atar, Doron. Trade Secrets: Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004.Google Scholar
Bergmann, William H. The American National State and the Early West. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blewett, Mary H. Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780–1910. Urbana: University of Illinois Press 1988.Google Scholar
Chandler, Alfred D. The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977.Google Scholar
Cogliano, Francis D. Emperor of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson’s Foreign Policy. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014.Google Scholar
Dawley, Alan. Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976.Google Scholar
Dublin, Thomas. Transforming Women’s Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994.Google Scholar
Edling, Max. A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.Google Scholar
Edling, Max. A Hercules in the Cradle: War, Money, and the American State, 1783–1867. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.Google Scholar
Gould, Eliga. Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.Google Scholar
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Keller, Morton. America’s Three Regimes: A New Political History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.Google Scholar
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Lipartito, Kenneth. “Connecting the Cultural and the Material in Business History.” Enterprise and Society 14, no. 4 (2013): 686704.Google Scholar
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Skowronek, Stephen. Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877–1920. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982.Google Scholar
Smith, Merritt Roe. Harper’s Ferry Armory and the New Technology: The Challenge of Change Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1977.Google Scholar
Ware, Caroline. The Early New England Cotton Manufacture: A Study in Industrial Beginnings. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1931.Google Scholar
Wilson, Mark R. The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861–1865. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.Google Scholar
Zakim, Michael, and Kornblith, Gary J., eds. Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.Google Scholar
Zonderman, David A. Aspirations and Anxieties: New England Workers and the Mechanized Factory System, 1815–1850. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.Google Scholar
Carico, Aaron, and Orenstein, Dara. “Editors’ Introduction: The Fictions of Finance.” Radical History Review 2014, no. 118 (2014): 313.Google Scholar
Farber, Hannah. “Millions for Credit: Peace with Algiers and the Establishment of America’s Commercial Reputation Overseas, 179596.” Journal of the Early Republic 34, no. 2 (Summer 2014): 187217.Google Scholar
Feldman, Maryann. “Knowledge Complementarity and Innovation.” Small Business Economics 6, no. 3 (1994): 363372.Google Scholar
Forman, Sidney. “The United States Military Philosophical Society, 18021813: Scientia in BelloPax.” William and Mary Quarterly 3 (1945): 273285.Google Scholar
Fries, Russell I. “British Response to the American System: The Case of the Small-Arms Industry after 1850.” Technology and Culture (1975): 377403.Google Scholar
John, Richard R. “Governmental Institutions as Agents of Change: Rethinking American Political Development in the Early Republic, 1787–1835.” Studies in American Political Development 11 (Fall 1997): 347380.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Katznelson, Ira. “Flexible Capacity: The Military and Early American Statebuilding.” In Shaped by War and Trade: International Influences on American Political Development, edited by Katznelson, Ira and Shefter, Martin, 82110. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002.Google Scholar
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Kirshner, Jonathan. “Political Economy in Security Studies After the Cold War.” Review of International Political Economy 5, no. 1 (1998): 64 91.Google Scholar
Kulik, Gary. “Pawtucket Village and the Strike of 1824: The Origins of Class Conflict in Rhode Island.” Radical History Review 17 (1978): 537.Google Scholar
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Novak, William J. “The Myth of the Weak American State.” American Historical Review 113, no. 3 (June 2008): 752772.Google Scholar
Rockman, Seth. “What Makes the History of Capitalism Newsworthy?” Journal of the Early Republic 34, no. 3 (Fall 2014): 439466.Google Scholar
Wilson, Mark R. “Law and the American State, from the Revolution to the Civil War: Institutional Growth and Structural Change.” In The Cambridge History of Law in America, vol. 2, edited by Grossberg, Michael and Tomlins, Christopher, 135. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.Google Scholar
Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, RI.Google Scholar
Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, CT.Google Scholar
Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA.Google Scholar
Yale University Manuscripts and Archives, New Haven, CT.Google Scholar
Middlesex County Historical Society, Middletown, CT.Google Scholar
Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE.Google Scholar
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.Google Scholar
National Archives, Washington, DC.Google Scholar
National Archives, Waltham, MA.Google Scholar
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA.Google Scholar