Item #14069 Arms Makers of the Connecticut Valley, A Regional Study of the Economic Development of the Small Arms Industry, 1798-1870. INDUSTRIALIZATION, Felicia Johnson Deyrup.

Arms Makers of the Connecticut Valley, A Regional Study of the Economic Development of the Small Arms Industry, 1798-1870

Northampton, MA: 1948.

First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Smith College Studies in History Volume XXXIII. vii, 290 pp, indexed. Original printed wrappers. Some small tears at the edges, clean and sound. Signature of noted Civil War historian Frank Vandiver inside front cover. A detailed analysis of the evolution of small arms manufacturing that emphasizes its role in the development of modern production methods in American industry as a whole. Deyrup concludes that despite being a relatively small industry, small arms manufacture "played a vital role in the development of machine tools, of precision measurement, and of interchangeability."

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