Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Tables -- Maps -- PART I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Problem and Its Setting -- PART II. The Era of Preparation -- Chapter 2. Boston as a Center of Capital, 1820-1845 -- Chapter 3. Moving into Railroad Investment: Experience in the East --...

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Editors' Introduction -- Authors' Preface -- CHAPTER 1. PIONEERING AN INDUSTRY: The Lowell Manufacturing Company, 1828-1852 -- CHAPTER 2. PIONEERING AN INDUSTRY: The Connecticut Companies, 1825-1854 -- CHAPTER 3. PIONEERING AN INDUSTRY: Three Younger Companies,...

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- TABLES -- EDITORS' INTRODUCTION -- AUTHOR'S PREFACE -- PART I. EARLY YEARS, 1844-1870 -- CHAPTER I. YANKEES ORGANIZE THE PEPPERELL MANUFACTURING COMPANY -- CHAPTER II. THE COTTON TEXTILE INDUSTRY IN NEW ENGLAND, 1775-1850 -- CHAPTER III. PURCHASING...

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER I. WOOL-GROWING BEFORE 1800 -- CHAPTER II. THE ADVENT OF THE MERINO, 1800-1815 -- CHAPTER III. WOOL-GROWING FINALLY ESTABLISHED ON A COMMERCIAL BASIS, 1815-1830 -- CHAPTER IV. THE PERIOD OF THE EAST'S SUPREMACY, 1830-1840 -- CHAPTER V. THE RISE OF...

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- APPENDICES -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PART I. ORGANIZATION -- CHAPTER I. ORIGINS -- CHAPTER II. MIGRATIONS -- CHAPTER III. MARKETING -- CHAPTER IV. INTERNAL ORGANIZATION OF THE MESTA -- PART II. JUDICIARY -- CHAPTER V. ORIGINS OF THE ALCALDE...