Editing McCormick reaper (section)

== Further reading ==

* Aldrich, Lisa J. ''Cyrus McCormick and the mechanical reaper'' (2002), for middle schools; [https://archive.org/details/cyrusmccormickme0000aldr online]

* Ardrey, Robert. ''American Agricultural Implements: A Review of Invention and Development in the Agricultural Implement Industry of the United States'' (1894) [https://archive.org/details/americanagricult00ardr/page/n4/mode/1up online]; a major comprehensive overview in 236 pages.
* Benson, Howard William. "Organization and First Years of the International Harvester Company" (Thesis, The University of Chicago; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,  1936. TM18363).

* Bidwell, Percy and John Falconer. ''History of Agriculture in the Northern United States, 1620-1860'' (Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1925) [https://archive.org/details/historyofagricul0000perc online], pp 281-305.

* Canine, Craig. ''Dream Reaper: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High-Stakes World of Modern Agriculture'' (Knopf, 1995) 

* Casson, Herbert. ''Cyrus Hall McCormick: His Life and Work'' (1909) popular biography [https://archive.org/details/cyrushallmccormi0000herb/page/n8/mode/1up online].
* Casson, Herbert. ''The Romance of the Reaper'' (1908) [https://ia601600.us.archive.org/30/items/romanceofreaperb0000cass/romanceofreaperb0000cass.pdf online], popular history.

* Colman, Gould . "Innovation and Diffusion in Agriculture," ''Agricultural History'' (19680 42#3 pp.173-187.  On early reaper adopters in upstate New York in 1850,

* Cronon, William. ''Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West'' (W.W. Norton, 1991).

* David, Paul A. "The mechanization of reaping in the ante-bellum Midwest" in:	''Issues in American economic history : Selected readings'' (Heath,1980) pp. 184–191.
* David, Paul A., “The Landscape and the Machine: Technical Interrelatedness, Land Tenure and the Mechanization of the Corn Harvest in Victorian Britain,” in Donald N. McCloskey, ed., ''Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain after 1840'' (Princeton University Press, 1971), pp. 145–205.

* Fishwick, Marshall. "Sheaves of Golden Grain," ''American Heritage'' (Oct 1956) 7#6 pp.80-85. Popular look at how reaper  was invented.

* Garraty, Jihn A. ''Right Hand Man: The Life of George W. Perkins'' (1957) forming International Harvester in 1902.

* Grady, Lee. "McCormick's Reaper at 100," ''Wisconsin Magazine of History'' (2001) 84#3 pp.10-20. Looks at the marketing of agricultural equipment 1831 to 1931.
* Hirsch, Arthur. “Efforts of the Grange in the Middle West to Control the Price of Farm Machinery, 1870–1880.” ''Mississippi Valley Historical Review'' 15 (1929): 473–96.

* Hounshell, David A. ''From the American system to mass production, 1800--1932.'' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984) esp. "The McCormick Reaper Works and American Manufacturing Technology in the Nineteenth Century" pp 153-188. [https://archive.org/details/fromamericansyst0000houn/page/n8/mode/1up online]

* {{Cite book |last=Hutchinson |first=William T. |year=1930 |title=Cyrus Hall McCormick: Seed-Time, 1809–1856 |volume=1 |publisher=Century Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UzPTAAAAMAAJ |oclc=6991369 }}; a standard scholarly history.
** {{Cite book |last=Hutchinson |first=William T. |year=1930 |title=Cyrus Hall McCormick: Harvest, 1856–1884 |volume=2 |publisher=Century Company |oclc=1651671 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wzPTAAAAMAAJ}}

* Jones, Eliot. ''The trust problem in the United States'' (1921) pp. 231-259. [https://archive.org/details/trustprobleminun0000elio/page/231/mode/1up online]

* Kline, Ronald. ''Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America'' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).
* Kramer, Helen. “Harvester and High Finance: Formation of the International Harvester Company.” ''Business History Review'' 38 (1964): 283–301. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3112159 online]
* Lerner, Eugene. “Investment Uncertainty during the Civil War: A Note on the McCormick Brothers.” ''Journal of Economic History'' (1956) 16#1: 34–40.

* Lyons, Norbert. ''The McCormick reaper legend; the true story of a great invention'' (1955) [https://archive.org/details/mccormickreaperl00lyon online

* McCormick III, Cyrus Hall. ''The Century of the Reaper'' (1933), popular history [https://ia601303.us.archive.org/18/items/centuryofthereap000250mbp/centuryofthereap000250mbp.pdf online]

* McClelland, Peter. ''Sowing Modernity: America’s First Agricultural Revolution'' (Cornell University Press, 1997); wide-ranging history of major farm tools in Europe and U.S.

* Marsh, Barbara. ''A corporate tragedy : the agony of International Harvester Company'' (Doubleday, 1985)  [https://archive.org/details/corporatetragedy00mars online]

* Messer-Kruse, Timothy. "Strike or anarchist plot? The McCormick riot of 1886 reconsidered" ''Labor History,'' (2011) 52(4), 483–510. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2011.632552 on violence of May 3, 1886, the day before the better known [[Haymarket affair]]

* Olmstead, Alan L. "The Mechanization of Reaping and Mowing in American Agriculture, 1833–1870" ''Journal of Economic History'' (1975) 35#2 pp. 327–352 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700075082

* Olmstead, Alan and Paul W. Rhode, “Beyond the Threshold: An Analysis of the Characteristics and Behavior of Early Reaper Adopters.” ''Journal of Economic History''  55#1 (1995): 27-57.   DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700040560

*  Ott, Daniel Peter. “Producing a Past: McCormick Harvester and the Producer Populists in the 1890s,” ''Agricultural History'' 88#1 (2014): 87–119. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3098/ah.2014.88.1.87 online]
*  Ott, Daniel P. ''Harvesting History: McCormick's Reaper, Heritage Branding, and Historical Forgery'' (U of Nebraska Press, 2023).
* Ozanne, Robert W. ''A century of labor-Management relations at McCormick and International Harvester'' (1967) [https://archive.org/details/centuryoflaborma0000unse online]
* Pickering, E. C. "The International Harvester Company in Russia: A Case Study of a Foreign corporation in Russia from the 1860s to the 1930s" (Thesis, Princeton University; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,  1974. 7800256).

*  Pomfret, Richard. "The Mechanization of Reaping in Nineteenth-Century Ontario: A Case Study of the Pace and Causes of the Diffusion of Embodied Technical Change." ''Journal of Economic History'' (1976) 36#2 pp.399-415.
* Queen, George S. "The McCormick Harvesting Machine Company in Russia, ''Russian Review'' (1964) 2#23 pp.164-181. Reaper had as major impact on Russian farming, 1858 to 1917.

* Quick, Graeme R., and Wesley F. ; Buchele. ''Grain Harvesters'' (American Society of Agricultural Engineers, 1978)

* Rikoon, J. Sanford. ''Threshing in the Midwest, 1820-1940: A Study of Traditional Culture and Technological Change'' (Indiana University Press, 1988). [https://archive.org/details/threshinginmidwe0000riko online]

* Rogin, Leo. '' The Introduction of Farm Machinery in Its Relation to the Productivity of Labor in the Agriculture of the United States during the Nineteenth Century'' (University of California Press, 1931).

* Rosenberg, Chaim M. ''The International Harvester Company: A History of the Founding Families and Their Machines'' (McFarland, 2019). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_International_Harvester_Company/qCqVDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=The+International+Harvester+Company:&printsec=frontcover online], popular history with emphasis on family ties..

* Rosenberg, Emily S. ''Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890–1945'' (1982)

* Shannon, Fred A. ''The Farmer's Last Frontier: Agriculture, 1860-1897'' (1945) pp. 125-148, 393-395 [https://archive.org/details/farmerslastfront00shan online]
* {{citation |first=Robert |last=Sobel |author-link=Robert Sobel |title=The Entrepreneurs: Explorations Within the American Business Tradition |location=New York |publisher=Weybright & Talley |year=1974 |chapter=Cyrus Hall McCormick : From Farm Boy to Tycoon |pages=[https://archive.org/details/entrepreneursexp00sobe/page/41 41–72] |isbn=0-679-40064-8 |postscript=. |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/entrepreneursexp00sobe/page/41 }}

* Steward, John, and Arthur Pound. ''The Reaper: A History of the Efforts of Those Who Justly May Be Said to Have Made Bread Cheap'' (New York: Greenberg, 1931), popular.

* Thwaites, Reuben Gold. ''Cyrus Hall McCormick and the reaper'' (State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1909) [https://archive.org/details/cyrushallmccorm00wiscgoog online], brief scholarly history

* {{Cite book |last=Winder |first=Gordon M. |year=2016 |orig-year=2013 |title=The American Reaper: Harvesting Networks and Technology, 1830–1910 |publisher=Routledge |oclc=940862197 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=anneCwAAQBAJ |isbn=9781317045151 }}
* Winder, Gordon M. "A trans-national machine on the world stage: representing McCormick's reaper through world's fairs, 1851–1902" ''Journal of Historical Geography'' (2007) 33#2 pp.352-376.

===Primary sources===
* Dodge & Stevenson Manufacturing Co. ''Dodge's patent reaper & mower, and self-raker''  (1870), 40-page illustrated guide how to use the machine. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924059877450/page/n11/mode/thumb online]
* Fitch, Charles H. "The Manufacture of Agricultural Implements" in  "Report on the Manufactures of Interchangeable Mechanism" in ''1880 Census: Volume 2. Report on the Manufactures of the United States'' (1881) pp. 70-85; detailed statistics of agricultural machines, by city and state for 1880 and previous censuses. [https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1880/vol-02-manufactures/1880_v2-13.pdf online]

* Rhode, Robert T. ''Harvest Story Recollections of Old-Time Threshermen'' (Purdue UP, 2001), primary sources

* ''United States of America, petitioner, vs. International Harvester Company, et al., defendants : transcript of proceedings'' (1912) [https://archive.org/search?query=title%3A%28"international+Harvester"%29&sort=-date&and%5B%5D=subject%3A"Antitrust+law" online] multivolume transcripts.

===Film===
* "THE ROMANCE OF THE REAPER" (1937 INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER PROMO FILM ), 25 minutes, black and white; filmed in Virginia. [https://archive.org/details/10604-the-romance-of-the-reaper-vwr online]

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