{"product_id":"technology-and-power-in-the-david-j-jeremy-9780871691897","title":"Technology and Power in the Early American Cotton Industry: James Montgomery, the 2nd Edition of His \"Cotton Manufacture\" (1840), and the 'Justitia' C","description":"Behind the original pubication of Montgomery's \"Practical Detail\" (1840) lay the continuing concern about world markets \u0026amp; international economic \u0026amp; technological leadership. Montgomery's achievement lay in the wealth \u0026amp; reliability of the comparative data he assembled, for the first time, about the Am. \u0026amp; British cotton industries, which were then the high tech of industrializing societies. For the tech. \u0026amp; economics of production of the early 19th century cotton industries, his work remains indispensable. A mss. has recently surfaced in which Montgomery recorded the changes he intended for the 2nd ed. of his classic. The vol. is prefaced by a biog. of Montgomery, tracing his Scottish background \u0026amp; his migration from Glasgow to New England in the 1830s, \u0026amp; an intro. to the 2nd ed., establishing its context. Appended to the Montogmery text are the documents of the \"justitia controversy,\" from the Boston newspapers of 1841, in which the merits \u0026amp; relative costs of steam \u0026amp; water power were debated. Scholarly footnotes, textual \u0026amp; substantive, are provided as appropriate. Illus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David J. Jeremy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0871691892\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780871691897\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e American Philosophical Society Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.81d","brand":"David J. Jeremy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48517534220543,"sku":"9780871691897","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_61bec664-8da4-4a3a-94ea-1cddf0fe7959.jpg?v=1778732073","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/technology-and-power-in-the-david-j-jeremy-9780871691897","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}