-While much has been written about the industrial revolution, - writes Lawrence Peskin, -we rarely read about industrial revolutionaries.- This absence, he explains, reflects the preoccupation of both classical and Marxist economics with impersonal forces rather than with individuals. In Manufacturing Revolution Peskin deviates from both dominant paradigms by closely examining the words and deeds of individual Americans who made things in their own shops, who met in small groups to promote industrialization, and who, on the local level, strove for economic...

-While much has been written about the industrial revolution, - writes Lawrence Peskin, -we rarely read about industrial revolutionaries.- This absence, he explains, reflects the preoccupation of both classical and Marxist economics with impersonal forces rather than with individuals. In Manufacturing Revolution Peskin deviates from both dominant paradigms by closely examining the words and deeds of individual Americans who made things in their own shops, who met in small groups to promote industrialization, and who, on the local level, strove for economic...

Although the twenty-first century may well be the age of globalization, this book demonstrates that America has actually been at the cutting edge of globalization since Columbus landed here five centuries ago.

Lawrence A. Peskin and Edmund F. Wehrle explore America's evolving connections with Europe, Africa, and Asia in the three areas that historically have been indicators of global interaction: trade and industry, diplomacy and war, and the -soft- power of ideas and culture. Framed in four chronological eras that mark phases in the long history of globalization, this book considers...

Mathew Carey s long-neglected The New Olive Branch offers new insight into political economy as it really happened. This is the first-ever scholarly edition of Carey s most important economic work. Like other volumes in Anthem s Economic Ideas that Built America series, it gives the reader easy access to historical works that have been dropped from the modern economic canon because of their uncomfortable fit with contemporary conceptions of classical economics rooted in the work of Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Thomas Malthus.

In The New Olive Branch, Carey derided those so-called...