TY - JOUR
AB - 1198 The Journal of American History March 2016 politically cautious insight, one the authors as pioneers in manufacture and retail by the could have done more to push beyond. mid-nineteenth century. The route to prosperity was different in the Noam Maggor United States. There, the ubiquitous peddlers Charles Warren Center plying their trade in the sparsely settled ter- Harvard University ritories of the Midwest and the South blazed Cambridge, Massachusetts a path to success. American peddlers-turned- doi: 10.1093/jahist/jav800 shopkeepers as well as their British counter- parts in retail reaped profits in the expanding markets of California, on the one hand, and The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to the new markets of the British colonies, on the Success in America and the British Empire. By other. However, for American Jews, it was the Adam D. Mendelsohn. (New York: New York granting by the federal and state governments University Press, 2014. viii, 297 pp. $35.00.) during the Civil War years of profitable con- tracts to hundreds of Jewish contractors that This study revisits the history of the g - ar ment trades through the lens of the “ethn catapulted J ic ewish manufacturers (some turned financiers) to national 
TI - The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.1093/jahist/jav801
DA - 2016-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-rag-race-how-jews-sewed-their-way-to-success-in-america-and-the-c0e8ctObMr
SP - 1198
EP - 1198
VL - 102
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -