Annotated Bibliography - Textile Industry in the 19th Century



Ben Stacey

Annotated Bibliography

Abbott, Shirley. The National Museum of American History. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.,

Publishers,1981). p 213223. Print.

This was a very helpful source. I found this near the end of my research when I found the database, JSTOR. I pulled information from an exert of the journal which was about the origins of the textile industry in America. It was very detailed and explained how America pirated their textile technology from England. I found this source to be very reliable because not only did I find it on JSTOR but it was written by a professional historian of the 18th century.

Bils, Mark. The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 10331045

Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Economic History Association Article Stable Dec., 1984 Web. 20 April 2013.

This source was also pulled from the JSTOR. It was my last source to add. I found it to fill the missing parts of my research. It was a journal written a historian whose specialty was America’s economy. I took information from the industrial revolution section. He talked about how the introduction of textile in America had a huge effect on the economy because of the new jobs and market it was generating. I found this source to be reliable it had detailed footnotes.

Chaitkin, Anton. "The American Industrial Revolution That Andrew Jackson Sought To Destroy." EIR 22 June 2012: 6-23. Web. 17 Mar. 2013.

The following annotation cites a magazine article from the magazine “Executive Intelligence Review, which was written by a historian named Anton Chaitkin. I learned a great deal of information from this source even though it did not have many facts and was more of story. It gave me a different perspective on how the industrial revolution was being interpreted as it was going on. I also learned about politics that were going on at the time, which was interesting.

Griffin, Emma. "A Short History of the Industrial Revolution (Palgrave, 2011) | Emma Griffin - Academia.edu.” N.p., 2011. Web. 10 Mar. 2013.

This article was written by a professor from University of East Anglia, School of History. The article had footnotes. The article describes the causes of the industrial revolution. For example, the new technology in the cotton industry contributed to the revolution. The article explains all the important events and inventions of the industrial revolution. Some important inventions were the power loom and the idea of an assembly line. It also explains how the industrial revolution boosted America’s economic status in the world.

Guest, Richard. "Internet History Sourcebooks." Internet History Sourcebooks: Fordham

University, n.d. Web. 17 Mar. 2013.

This resource is very reliable. It was written by Richard Guest who is an expert on the era of the industrial revolution. This article told the story about the steam loom, and how it was invented. It also explained the effects the new loom had on the industrial revolution and how it contributed a great deal to the time period.

Kornblith, Gary John. The Industrial Revolution in America. Vol. 1. Boston, MA: Houghton

Mifflin, 1998. Print.

This is written by a professor of history whose specialty is the reconstruction of America in the 19th century. The book focuses on the changes that America went through during the industrial revolution. It explained the common life back then and how an average person would live. It also talked a great deal about the technology in that era, which I thought would add to my topic.

Jeremy, David J. Technology and Culture. (Vol. 14, No. 1), pp. 4076. Published by:

The Johns Hopkins University Press on behalf of the Society for the History of Technology Article Stable Jan., 1973. Web. 24 April 2013.

This source was found in the JSTOR database. It is a book written about the textile technology during the 19thc century. The book focus on the various improvement that were made to the cotton making process in textile mills in America. This source was helped fill more facts and other important statistics. This source is definitely reliable is was written by a Professor at John Hopkins University.

Lucas, Robert E., Jr. "The Industrial Revolution: Past and Future - The Region- Publications &

Papers | The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis." The Industrial Revolution: Past and

Future - The Region - Publications & Papers | The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. The Federal Resevre Bank of Minneapolis, 1 May 2004. Web. 10 Mar. 2013.

This Article was written by Robert Lucas Jr., who is a consultant in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. It contained endnotes and recommendations for further readings. The article basically talks about how the industrial revolution started and how it affected America in various ways. For example, it helped the economy and created more jobs in tough time. It goes into depth about of what the pros and cons of this era were.

Morris, Charles R., and J. E. Morris. The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial

Revolution. New York: Public Affairs, 2012. Print.

The book, The Dawn of Innovation was a great source and written by a reputable American historian. The novel goes into great detailed about the how industrial revolution was able to turn America into a great civilization, and it describes how the drive for innovation all started back during the industrial revolution. It also had many of the key inventions that jump-started the industrial revolution. This newly published book explained each invention and included diagrams, pictures, and end notes.

Sakolsky, Josh. Critical Perspectives on the Industrial Revolution. New York: Rosen Pub.

Group, 2005. Print.

Another book that proved to be helpful was Critical Perspectives on the Industrial Revolution. The source gave a great summary of the industrial revolution. It broke down the industrial revolution into the phases making it all easier to take in and let me navigate through the book with ease. The book also was able tie numerous primary sources into most of the topics, which helped greatly and made the source more credible.

From William Radcliffe, Origin of the New System of Manufacture, Commonly Called Power

Loom Weaving (London, 1828),pp.9-10, 59-67; reprinted in J. F. C. Harrison, Society

and Politics in England, 1780-1960 (New York: Harper & Row, 1965), pp. 58-61.

This source cites a journal written by William Radcliffe, who was the inventor of the Power Loom which I found very interesting. The entry is him talking about all the things that lead up to his invention and how he thought of it. This was the first primary source that I have come across, so I thought it was very reliable.

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