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Harvard Studies in Business History 40

Enterprising Elite

The Boston Associates and the World They Made

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HARDCOVER

$65.00 • £56.95 • €59.95

ISBN 9780674257658

Publication Date: 01/01/1987

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320 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

1 line illustration, 16 halftones, 3 tables

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  • 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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