From Milling to Manufacturing From Villages to Mill Towns

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
John T. Cumbler
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
New World ◽  
Forest Cover ◽  
Great Part ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Woollen Cloth ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
Intensively Managed ◽  
Local Use ◽  
Local Farmers

The new world of New England was one of factories and factory towns, as well as farms and forests. It was a world where farmers, looking to those factory towns for markets, plowed their fields deep and intensively managed their land. It was a world where lumbermen stripped mountainsides of their forest cover to meet the cities’ growing appetite for lumber. It was a world of managed and controlled nature. It was also a world of rapid change, and increasingly after 1800, the force behind that change was the coming of the manufacturing mills. Levi Shepard’s 1788 duck-cloth factory was of a different type than the traditional mills of New England. Although mills that spun or fulled cloth had long been part of rural New England, Levi Shepard had a different market in mind when he encouraged local farmers to bring him their flax. Shepard wanted to take material from the countryside and, with the help of “workers employed,” “manufacture” it into a commodity for sale. Shepard’s decision to focus on manufacturing for distant markets represented a new world. Manufacturing in rural New England began small. And although it made a huge impact on travelers such as Timothy Dwight, it grew out of, while at the same time it transformed, traditional rural society. The processing of goods of the countryside was an integral part of traditional New England life, whether in 1650 or 1800. In 1790, the Hampshire Gazette commented that although “a large quantity of woollen cloth are made in private families and brought to market in our trading towns, a great part of [the woollen cloth] is not calculated for market.” The shift from milling produce for local use to manufacturing occurred initially for most of rural New England with the shift of small traders, merchants, and millers from processing for local farmers to processing for external markets. Edmund Taylor of Williamsburg on the Mill River, for example, at the turn of the century added carding and picking machines to his gristmill. As he did for grain, Taylor processed the material from the countryside, keeping a portion of it as his pay.

scholarly journals Blockchain Disrupting Fintech and the Banking System

Proceedings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Eduard Alexandru Stoica ◽  
Daria Maria Sitea
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
New World ◽  
Great Part ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Almost All

Nowadays society is profoundly changed by technology, velocity and productivity. While individuals are not yet prepared for holographic connection with banks or financial institutions, other innovative technologies have been adopted. Lately, a new world has been launched, personalized and adapted to reality. It has emerged and started to govern almost all daily activities due to the five key elements that are foundations of the technology: machine to machine (M2M), internet of things (IoT), big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). Competitive innovations are now on the market, helping with the connection between investors and borrowers—notably crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending. Blockchain technology is now enjoying great popularity. Thus, a great part of the focus of this research paper is on Elrond. The outcomes highlight the relevance of technology in digital finance.

Breathing the “Free Aire of the New World”: The Influence of the New England Way on the Gathering of Congregational Churches in Old England, 1640–1660

2010 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-46
Author(s):  
Ralph F. Young
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
New World ◽  
Massachusetts Bay ◽  
Charles I ◽  
Church Polity

Puritans in England, although engaged in the struggle against Charles I and setting up the Commonwealth under Cromwell closely watched the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay. In demonstrating how the New England Way of church polity influenced the rise of Congregationalism in England, Young details the transatlantic flow of ideas from colony to motherland.

The Influence of Emerson's Divinity School Address

1939 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Elton Trueblood
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
New World ◽  
Thomas Carlyle ◽  
Tender Points ◽  
The West ◽  
Anthracite Coal ◽  
Divinity School

Thomas Carlyle never visited American shores. There was much to encourage his coming, especially the argument dear to his Scottish heart of money to be earned by lecturing. His friend Emerson, whose efforts made Sartor Resartus appreciated in America earlier than in England, was ready both to entertain him at Concord and to introduce him to the paying public. Once Emerson wrote to Carlyle a letter of invitation, describing his life at Concord so charmingly that the invitation must have been hard to decline. Carlyle was touched at one of his most tender points when his correspondent suggested that the hardy Scot's destiny lay in a new world. “What have you to do with Italy?” Emerson asked. “Your genius tendeth to the New, to the West.” Carlyle was invited to try New England for a year, with the promise of new health for poor Jane. The conclusion of Emerson's postscript made the mock assumption of real expectation. “Shall we have anthracite coal or wood in your chamber? My old mother is glad you are coming.”

scholarly journals Notices of the Pilgrim Fathers. John Eliot and His Friends, of Nazing

1882 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 267-311
Author(s):  
William Winters
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
New World ◽  
Small Space ◽  
John Eliot

The life and labours of John Eliot, together with those of his Nazing associates, occupy no small space in the evangelical annals of New England. As a pioneer and reformer, Eliot stands prominent among the settlers and founders of the New World, surrounded and supported by a galaxy of Essex Nonconformists of the purest type.

scholarly journals Forests in Flux: The Effects of Demographic Change on Forest Cover in New England and New York

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Ducey ◽  
Kenneth Johnson ◽  
Ethan Belair ◽  
Miranda Mockrin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New England ◽  
Demographic Change ◽  
Forest Cover

On the True Identity of Geophilus huronicus Meinert and the Presence of Geophilus longicornis Leach in North America (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Geophilidae)

1951 ◽  
Vol 83 (11) ◽  
pp. 314-315
Author(s):  
Ralph E. Crabill
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
New England ◽  
North American ◽  
New World ◽  
Original Description ◽  
World Species

In 1886 Meinert described a new centipede from New England which he called Geophilus huronicus. This centipede, characterized at some length and with considerable accuracy in the original description. is peculiar in that it is rather unlike any other known North American member of the genus. Perhaps for that reason, as well as because he had never seen huronicus, Attems placed it in his long roster of questionable New World species.

A discussion on ship technology in the 1980s - A forward view of British shipping

1972 ◽  
Vol 273 (1231) ◽  
pp. 5-11
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Great Part ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Middle Part ◽  
Time Span ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
Capital Intensive ◽  
Economic Considerations

The author’s theme is that the forward view of British shipping over the time span being considered will be to a large extent a view of existing ships. The industry is too capital intensive, too highly geared and operates at too low a level of profitability to admit of a very rapid change. Developments in the future must be based on the profitability of the present. It must be anticipated that in the early part of the period considered, a great part of the developments will be concentrated on improving the efficiency of the existing industry. Future developments will be dictated by techno-economic considerations. It is likely to be the middle 1980s before the scene is substantially changed by nuclear power and fluidics. A major technical development of the middle part of the period will be the growth of a fleet of liquid gas carriers for which gas turbines will provide the main propulsion system.

Early Modern Biblical Commentary and Jonathan Edwards

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriaan C. Neele
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
New World ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Jonathan Edwards ◽  
European Continent ◽  
Biblical Commentary ◽  
High Esteem ◽  
Modern Context ◽  
Insight Into

Adriaan C. Neele introduces the early modern context of biblical interpretation by discussing Matthew Poole’s Synopsis Criticorum aliorumque Sacrae Scripturae (1669–1674), a frequently referenced volume for many biblical interpreters, whether in England, on the European continent, or in the New World. Neele shows how this work represents early modern exegesis well and how it became an important channel for bringing medieval commentaries into the hands of post-Reformation exegetes. He also establishes the high esteem that this multivolume work gained in New England and its important role in Jonthan Edwards’ exegesis. The Synopsis gives us insight into early modern interpretation yet also serves as a contrast to New England exegesis, helping us set Edwards in his time.

John Robinson and the Beginnings of the Pilgrim Movement

1920 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 252-289
Author(s):  
Frederick James Powicke
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
New World ◽  
The North ◽  
The Subject

The scope of this article is strictly limited. It takes no account of the great issues, social, national, and international, which, in the course of time, flowed from the few simple folk “in the north parts” of England about Scrooby and Gainsborough who obeyed what they believed to be a divine impulse.Others far more competent for the purpose have already dealt with, or will deal with, these. Nor does it do more than touch the details of the life into which the exiles passed at Amsterdam and Leyden. For on these, Dr. Dexter and his son — to mention but two of the workers in this fieldx — may almost be said to have spoken the last word. Nor does it follow the Pilgrims into the new world where they struck root with such heroic fortitude, except so far as is required to correct one or two somewhat inveterate mistakes. It is, in fact, limited to the man who, beyond any one else, was the chief spiritual influence in those earliest pioneers whose character and ideals imparted a permanent direction to the development of New England. At the same time, while relating the substance of what is known of Robinson, I have tried to state the truth with regard to the circumstances in which the Pilgrim movement took its start; and if, in so doing, it has seemed necessary to criticize adversely the conclusions of one writer in particular, my excuse must be that his narrative has been accepted, in some high quarters, as that of an authority on the subject whose word is final. It is not by any means final, as the sequel, I think, will show.

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