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The International Harvester Company: A History of the Founding Families and Their Machines
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- Chaim M Rosenberg
- McFarland & Company
- Paperback
- 9781476677095
- 9.9 X 6.9 X 0.6 inches
- 1 pounds
- Biography & Autobiography > General
- English
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Ancient farmers used draft animals for plowing but the heavy work of harvesting fell to the humans, using sickle and scythe. Change came in the mid-19th century when Cyrus Hall McCormick built the mechanical harvester. Though the McCormicks used their wealth to establish art collections and universities, battle disease, and develop birth control, members of the family faced constant scrutiny and scandal. This book recounts their story as well as the history of the International Harvester Company (IHC)--a merger of the McCormick and Deering companies and the world's leader in agricultural machinery in the 1900s.
The International Harvester Company: A History of the Founding Families and Their Machines
Author Bio
Practicing as a psychiatrist in and around Boston Chaim M. Rosenberg became interested in the abandoned nineteenth-century textile and shoe mills, the people who built them and the people who worked in them. He decided to switch from medicine to history. Among his books are The Life and Times of Francis Cabot Lowell; 1775-1817; Goods for Sale: Products and Advertising in the Massachusetts Industrial Age: America at the Fair, Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, and Yankee Colonies Across America.
His new book Losing America, Conquering India was published September 2017.
Source: Journal of the American Revolution
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