Rum and axes: the rise of a Connecticut merchant family, 1795-1850
Editorial CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780801439322
- ISBN10 0801439329
- Type BOOK
- Pages 191
- Published 2002
- Language English
- Bookbinding Cloth
Rum and axes: the rise of a Connecticut merchant family, 1795-1850
Editorial CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book details
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.