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035			_a(DE-B1597)496474
035			_a(OCoLC)905902784
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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aSmith, Merritt Roe _eautore
245	1	0	_aHarpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology : _bThe Challenge of Change / _cMerritt Roe Smith.
264		1	_aIthaca, NY : _bCornell University Press, _c[2015]
264		4	_c©2015
300			_a1 online resource (364 p.)
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tContents -- _tIllustrations -- _tAbbreviations -- _tIntroduction -- _tChapter I. Regional Interests and Military Needs: Founding the "Mother Arsenal, " 1794-1801 -- _tChapter II. The Craft Origins of Production, 1798-1816 -- _tChapter III. Production, Labor, and Management, 1801-1816 -- _tChapter IV. Early Manufacturing Techniques, 1816 -- _tChapter V. Cooperation between the Armories, 1815-1829 -- _tChapter VI. James Stubblefield: Virginia Entrepreneur, 1815-1829 -- _tChapter VII. John H. Hall: Yankee in the Garden, 1819- 1841 -- _tChapter VIII. Hall and the American Systems, 1824–1840 -- _tChapter IX. Politics and Technology, 1829-1859 -- _tChapter X. The Community in Crisis, 1859-1861 -- _tChapter XI. Cultural Conditions and Technological Change: In Retrospect -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aFocusing on the day-to-day operations of the U.S. armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, from 1798 to 1861, this book shows what the "new technology" of mechanized production meant in terms of organization, management, and worker morale. A local study of much more than local significance, it highlights the major problems of technical innovation and social adaptation in antebellum America. Merritt Roe Smith describes how positions of authority at the armory were tied to a larger network of political and economic influence in the community; how these relationships, in turn, affected managerial behavior; and how local social conditions reinforced the reactions of decision makers. He also demonstrates how craft traditions and variant attitudes toward work vis-à-vis New England created an atmosphere in which the machine was held suspect and inventive activity was hampered.Of central importance is the author's analysis of the drastic differences between Harpers Ferry and its counterpart, the national armory at Springfield, Massachusetts, which played a pivotal role in the emergence of the new technology. The flow of technical information between the two armories, he shows, moved in one direction only— north to south. "In the end," Smith concludes, "the stamina of local culture is paramount in explaining why the Harpers Ferry armory never really flourished as a center of technological innovation."Pointing up the complexities of industrial change, this account of the Harpers Ferry experience challenges the commonly held view that Americans have always been eagerly receptive to new technological advances.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650		0	_aArmories _zWest Virginia _zHarpers Ferry _xHistory.
650		0	_aFirearms industry and trade _zWest Virginia _zHarpers Ferry _xHistory.
650		4	_aU.S. History.
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / 19th Century. _2bisacsh
653			_aUS armory, Harpers Ferry, Virginia, technical innovation, emergence of new technology, technological advancement, social adaptation, antebellum America, history of American technology.
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9780801454400
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801454400
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801454400/original
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