{"product_id":"technology-and-power-in-the-early-american-cotton-industry","title":"Technology and Power in the Early American Cotton Industry","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.","brand":"David J. Jeremy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43576174739638,"sku":"9780871691897","price":52.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780871691897.jpg?v=1729600976","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/technology-and-power-in-the-early-american-cotton-industry","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}