Daniel Webster, the Boston Associates, and the U.S. Government's Role in the Industrializing Process, 1815-1830

Prince, Carl E.; Taylor, Seth

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“…While no direction can be found, this windfall gain may have encouraged the establishment of Lowell and the growth of vertically integrated cotton firms. 45…”

Section: D E N C E From T H E Manufacturing C E N S U S " This J mentioning

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Product Quality and Vertical Integration in the Early Cotton Textile Industry

Temin

1988

J. Eco. History

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This article explores differences between the cotton industries in England and America in the early nineteenth century. I show that the two countries produced almost entirely different products: the Enlish made fine fabrics; the Americans, coarse. The cause of this disjunction is found in the American tariff policy, whichwas influenced by the Massachusetts cotton manufacturers. Since coarse spinning promoted vertical integration, the American product structure favored integration. This argument reveals that the variables analyzed were jointly determined, since the Massachusetts firms with the political clout to affect the tariff were vertically integrated.

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“…While no direction can be found, this windfall gain may have encouraged the establishment of Lowell and the growth of vertically integrated cotton firms. 45…”

Section: D E N C E From T H E Manufacturing C E N S U S " This J mentioning

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Product Quality and Vertical Integration in the Early Cotton Textile Industry

Temin

1988

J. Eco. History

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From Discontented Bostonians to Patriotic Industrialists: The Boston Associates and the Transcontinental Treaty, 1790–1825

Schakenbach

2011

The New England Quarterly

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Exploring the roots of the relationship between government and industry, the essay examines how the formerly anti-expansionist Boston Associates profited from claims reimbursements granted by the 1819 Transcontinental Treaty with Spain. Their windfall helps us rethink the federal government's role in facilitating their transition from merchants to industrialists, which ushered in a new age of capitalist economic growth.

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Looking Beyond Parties and Elections: The Making of United States Tariff Policy during the Early 1820s

Peart¹

2013

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“The vital interests of a great nation are too valuable to be offered a sacrifice to any man or any party.” So wrote Mathew Carey, vocal advocate of protection for American manufactures, in response to the defeat of the Baldwin tariff bill during the first session of the Sixteenth Congress (December 1819 – May 1820). Yet if Carey and his protectionist allies would not trust parties to make policy, then who would take the lead in addressing matters of public concern? And if partisan identities continued to prevail come election day, then how could those who rejected party hope to influence deliberations in the national legislature? This article seeks to answer these questions through reference to the debate surrounding the Baldwin tariff bill, which proposed to raise import duties in order to protect domestic industry from foreign competition. It shows that Carey and his allies developed an alternative mobilization strategy centered on non-partisan voluntary associations, and employed a variety of devices including petitioning and lobbying in their bid to shape federal policy. This episode demonstrates that if we want to better understand “who gets what, why, and how”, we must look beyond parties and elections for a more holistic approach to the politics of the early republic.

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Daniel Webster, the Boston Associates, and the U.S. Government's Role in the Industrializing Process, 1815-1830

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Product Quality and Vertical Integration in the Early Cotton Textile Industry

Product Quality and Vertical Integration in the Early Cotton Textile Industry

From Discontented Bostonians to Patriotic Industrialists: The Boston Associates and the Transcontinental Treaty, 1790–1825

Looking Beyond Parties and Elections: The Making of United States Tariff Policy during the Early 1820s

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