Rum and Axes : : The Rise of a Connecticut Merchant Family, 1795-1850 / / Janet Siskind.
Janet Siskind goes back to the beginnings of industrial capitalism in the United States to better understand the formation of the country's capitalist culture. She studies the papers and letters of three generations of the Watkinson family. The stories of their lives demonstrate how merchants a...
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Siskind, Janet, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Rum and Axes : The Rise of a Connecticut Merchant Family, 1795-1850 / Janet Siskind. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©2004 1 online resource (208 p.) : 3 halftones, 2 tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Voyage -- 2. Capital, Kin, and Connections -- 3. Balancing the Books -- 4. Continuity and Change -- 5. The Collins Company -- 6. Breaking Community, Building Class -- 7. For Their Own Good -- Conclusion: Distancing Production -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Janet Siskind goes back to the beginnings of industrial capitalism in the United States to better understand the formation of the country's capitalist culture. She studies the papers and letters of three generations of the Watkinson family. The stories of their lives demonstrate how merchants amassed the capital to become industrial entrepreneurs, organized factories and private corporations, and constructed philanthropic and cultural institutions. The author traces how "upper-class work," the everyday tasks of organizing and maintaining trade or a system of production, shaped the family's experience and New England's culture. The result is an intimate story of social class and capitalism.The reader comes to know several members of this enterprising family, who emigrated from England in 1795. The young women married merchants; their brothers prospered as merchants in Connecticut's West Indian trade. The author shows how their account books, which balanced the imports of rum with the exports of horses, obscured the system of slavery that created their wealth.After the War of 1812, the Watkinsons and their nephews the Collinses turned from trade to manufacturing textiles and axes. Their letters paint a vivid picture of the difficult process of shaping farmers' sons into a disciplined workforce and entrepreneurs into industrial and financial capitalists. Siskind skillfully blends social history and cultural anthropology to provide context for the engaging narrative of the Watkinsons' lives. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Business enterprises Connecticut History 19th century. Capitalism United States History 19th century. Merchants Connecticut Biography. Labor History. U.S. History. HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT). bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801439322 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501718137 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501718137 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501718137/original |
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