MANUFACTURING INDEPENDENCE, Industrial Innovation in the American Revolution by Robert F. Smith. Hard bound, 270 pages, 6”x9”. At the onset of the American Revolution the colonies were woefully unprepared to supply their army with the weapons and munitions it needed. The Continental Congress responded to the crisis by mobilizing the nation’s manufacturing sector for war. With information obtained from Europe through both commercial exchange and French military networks, Congress became familiar with the latest manufacturing techniques and processes of the European industrial revolution. As a result they initiated an innovative program of manufacture under the Commissary General of Military Stores which trained the manufacturing sector in large scale arms and munitions manufacture. In this book the author discusses how the war for independence was more than a political revolution but an integral part of the industrial revolution as well.   No. 703476