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In this expansive yet concise survey, Christopher Fennell discusses archaeological research from sites across the United States that once manufactured, harvested, or processed commodities. Through studies of craft enterprise and the Industrial Revolution, this book uncovers key insights into American history from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Exploring evidence from textile mills, glassworks, cutlery manufacturers, and tanneries, Fennell describes the complicated transition from skilled manual work to mechanized production methods, and he offers examples of how artisanal skill remained important in many factory contexts. Fennell also traces the distribution and transporta...
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The book brings together cutting-edge scholarship from the United States and Europe to address political and cultural responses to the arms race of the 1980s.
'To these people, anyone was expendable.'Based on a true story, 'Ensnared' is a gripping tale of crime, subterfuge and blackmail. As aninnocent businessman Daniel looked at the potential products with interest, he was not convinced,but the vendors were insistent. Daniel soon finds himself locked into a sinister spiral of deceit, liesand life threatening choices, none of his own making. When the reality of what was happeningbecomes apparent Daniel desperately tries to extract him-self from the sinister plot and the dangerin which it has placed his entire family. He is furious at his own naivety - his trusting nature, butthere seems to be no way out. His expectation that British justice would prevail was now his onlyhope.