- List of Illustrations*
- I. The Rise of the Waltham–Lowell System
- 1. Yankee Abroad: Francis Cabot Lowell in Scotland
- 2. The Boston Company of Waltham
- 3. Expansion
- II. Perfecting the Immense Machine
- 4. Transportation, Banking, and Insurance
- 5. Philanthropy and the Uses of Wealth
- 6. Politics and the Uses of Power
- Epilogue: The World They Made
- Appendix: Selected Business Corporations in Which the Boston Associates Were Active, 1813–1865
- Notes
- Index
- * Illustrations
- 1. Francis Cabot Lowell. Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston
- 2. Nathan Appleton. Courtesy of the Pollard Memorial Library, Lowell, Massachusetts
- 3. The Boston Manufacturing Company of Waltham, Massachusetts. Courtesy of the Lowell Historical Society, Lowell, Massachusetts
- 4. The Merrimack Mill and Workers’ Housing, Lowell, Massachusetts. Collection of the author
- 5. A Pair of Lowell Power Loom Operators. Courtesy of the New York Public Library, the Print Collection of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallace Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs
- 6. The City of Lowell after Ten Years. Courtesy of the New York Public Library, the I. N. Phelps-Stokes Collection of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallace Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs
- 7. The First Train on the Boston and Lowell Railroad. Courtesy of the Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts
- 8. Amos Lawrence. Courtesy of the Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown, Massachusetts
- 9. Abbott Lawrence. Courtesy of the New York Public Library, the Print Collection of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallace Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs
- 10. The Appleton Family Home, Ipswich, Massachusetts. From Thomas F. Waters, Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, I (Ipswich, 1905), p. 224
- 11. Nathan Appleton’s Beacon Street House, Boston. Courtesy of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Boston
- 12. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. From Caleb Snow, A History of Boston (Boston, 1825), facing p. 362
- 13. McLean Asylum, Somerville, Massachusetts. Courtesy of the McLean Hospital Archive, Belmont, Massachusetts
- 14. Lawrence Hall, Williams College. Courtesy of the Williamsiana Collection, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
- 15. Amos A. Lawrence. Courtesy of Reverend Frederick C. Lawrence
- 16. The Pemberton Mill Disaster. From Harper’s Weekly, January 21, 1860
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