Industrializing Antebellum America: The Rise of Manufacturing Entrepreneurs in the Early Republic (Hardcover)

PART I: THE COLTS: CASINO AND CRONY CAPITALISM Colt Family Values The Education of Samuel Colt Samuel Colt: From Industry to American Empire PART II: THE SLATERS: FROM PATERNALISM TO CONTRACT The Slaters of England and New England John Fox and Horatio Nelson Slater: Paternalism, Philanthropy, and the Disciplinary Society PART III: THE LAWRENCES: MANUFACTURING AND THE MORAL LIFE OF AN INDUSTRIAL URBAN ELITE Amos and Abbott Lawrence: Philanthropy and Politics in Antebellum America Amos Adams Lawrence: The "Puritan Warrior" and the Destiny of America