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Jonathan Hughes and Louis P. Cain,
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9.
Carl Carmer,
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10.
Frances Trollope,
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11.
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,
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(New York: Columbia University Press, 1960), 34–35.
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18.
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(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993), 64.
19.
Washington, quoted in Frank Bourgin,
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(New York: George Braziller, 1989), 149.
20.
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(Madison, WI: Madison House Publishers, 1995), 277.
21.
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz,
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22.
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23.
Ibid.
24.
Ibid., 1407.
25.
David Maldwyn Ellis,
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,
1790–1859
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1946), p. 32.
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John Jay,
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31.
Jacques M. Downs, “American Merchants and the China Opium Trade, 1800–1840,”
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Downs, “American Merchants and the China Opium Trade,” 438.
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35.
Karl E. Meyer, “The Opium War’s Secret History,”
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Polly
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40.
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(Conshohocken, PA: Combined Books, 1995), 303.
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,” 201.
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John Upton Terrell,
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Axel Madsen,
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Furs by Astor
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John Jacob Astor
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John Jacob Astor
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50.
Ian Frazier,
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51.
Terrell,
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54.
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55.
Dolin,
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, 336.
56.
Ibid., 339.
57.
Ibid., 362.
58.
Ibid., 335.
59.
See Drew R. McCoy,
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(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996).
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Joseph A. Schumpeter,
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CHAPTER 4: “THERE IS NOTHING THAT CANNOT BE PRODUCED BY MACHINERY”: THE FIRST INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Erasmus Darwin,
The Botanic Garden
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3.
Alex Roberto Hybel,
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Nathan Rosenberg,
Perspectives on Technology
(Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1976), 176.
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Mary Bellis, “Steam in Captivity.”
13.
Nathan Rosenberg,
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16.
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17.
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18.
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20.
David A. Hounshell,
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21.
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22.
Ibid., 192–93.
23.
Quoted in Hugo Meier, “Technology and Democracy, 1800–1860,”
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, pt. 2 (New York: Harper & Row, 1972), 33.
24.
Rosenberg,
Technology and American Economic Growth
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25.
John M. Murrin et al.,
Liberty, Equality, Power
, 4th ed. (Boston: Wadsworth, 2008), 370.
CHAPTER 5: AMERICAN SYSTEMS
1.
Adam Smith,
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(New York: Random House, 1937 [originally published in 1776]), 309.
2.
Simon Patten,
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(Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1890), 87.
3.
John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson, “The Imperialism of Free Trade,”
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4.
Ha-Joon Chang,
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(New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2008), 53.
5.
Cobden,
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Bad Samaritans
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6.
Quoted in Robert Gilpin
, War and Change in World Politics
(Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1981), 137.
7.
John Adams,
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, ed. Charles F. Adams (Boston: Little, Brown, 1850–1856), 10:384; cited in Alfred E. Eckes Jr.,
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(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995), 19.
8.
Victor S. Clark,
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(Washington, DC: Carnegie Institute, 1916), 240.
9.
Smith,
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, 347–48.
10.
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, ed. Syrett et al. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1966), 10:263.
11.
Heather Cox Richardson,
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(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997), 19.
12.
Henry C. Carey, “How Can Slavery Be Extinguished?” in
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(Philadelphia: A. Hart, Late Carey & Hart, 1853), 294–307.