Gordon M Winder

The American Reaper

Harvesting Networks and Technology, 1830-1910

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The American Reaper adopts a network approach to account for the international diffusion of harvesting technology from North America, from the invention of the reaper through to the formation of a dominant transnational corporation, International Harvester. The first study dedicated to the development and diffusion of American harvesting machine technology, this book will appeal to scholars from a diverse range of fields, including economic history, business history, the history of knowledge transfer, historical geography and economic geography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9781138261280
• ISBN-10: 1138261289
• Artikelnr.: 57043968

Autorenporträt

Gordon Winder is Professor of Economic Geography at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitÿt, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: The American reaper: harvesting networks and technology,
1830-1910; Part 1 Production Network Geographies: The licensing regime:
arrangements for producing harvesting machinery 1830-1890; Dispersed
production networks: technical constraints, seasonality and subcontracting
1830-1880; Breaking through to mass production: spatial and corporate
concentration 1880-1910. Part 2 Competition and Collaboration: A
transnational machine on the world stage: representing McCormick's reaper
through World's Fairs, 1851-1902; Building trust and managing business over
distance: a geography of reaper manufacturer D.S. Morgan's correspondence,
1867; The harvest scene: the American reaper networks and globalization;
Bibliography; Index.