Add to ORKGThe Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures was one of the first corporations in American history. The company was an attempt by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, with the help of his Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Tench Coxe, to turn Hamilton’s “Report on Manufactures” into a physical reality. Although the SUM would dissolve only five years after openings its doors, there is plenty to extract from the company’s practices. Through the SUM, Alexander Hamilton and his Federalist contemporaries attempted to recreate, and unite, a weak and fledgling United States by strengthening the nation politically and economically. The Society was Hamilton’s first true attempt to bind the nation together through interdependence of...
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As the United States looked forward to its future as an independent nation at the end of the eightee...
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Alexander Hamilton\u27s American empire was a flexible and contradictory one that was based on econo...
Considers how during the 1780\u27s-1820\u27s wealthy Philadelphians adopted the British institutiona...
Research on the American Revolutionary debt has particularly focused on the leadership of American f...
My dissertation examines the meetings, bulletins, and journals of manufacturers' associations as sit...
In late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Britain, a decisive shift occurred in assumptions ab...
This dissertation examines the ways that moneyed Philadelphians invented corporate power in America ...
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This article explores the origins of a phenomenon of lasting and profound impact on American society...
Alexander Hamilton was a major protagonist in the struggle to build a strong national government bac...
The turn of the twentieth century radically renewed industrial organization across the United States...
From the mid-1600s to the mid-1700s, mercantilism was the dominant economic doctrine practiced in th...
As the United States looked forward to its future as an independent nation at the end of the eightee...
The economy is perhaps the central topic of political debate in the world today. Yet familiarity has...
Alexander Hamilton\u27s American empire was a flexible and contradictory one that was based on econo...
Considers how during the 1780\u27s-1820\u27s wealthy Philadelphians adopted the British institutiona...
Research on the American Revolutionary debt has particularly focused on the leadership of American f...
My dissertation examines the meetings, bulletins, and journals of manufacturers' associations as sit...
In late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Britain, a decisive shift occurred in assumptions ab...
This dissertation examines the ways that moneyed Philadelphians invented corporate power in America ...
Business history also attests to the legacy thatimmigrants left on American affairs. Althoughmany of...
Abstract. In a time of renewed interested in Alexander Hamilton inliterature and art, recent attenti...
The purpose of this manuscript is to explain Alexander Hamilton\u27s idea that a national bank was e...
This article explores the origins of a phenomenon of lasting and profound impact on American society...
Alexander Hamilton was a major protagonist in the struggle to build a strong national government bac...
The turn of the twentieth century radically renewed industrial organization across the United States...
From the mid-1600s to the mid-1700s, mercantilism was the dominant economic doctrine practiced in th...
As the United States looked forward to its future as an independent nation at the end of the eightee...
The economy is perhaps the central topic of political debate in the world today. Yet familiarity has...