| Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century Contributor(s): Licht, Walter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801850142 ISBN-13: 9780801850141 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1995 Annotation: "This book", writes historian Walter Licht in the Introduction, "is concerned with the great social and economic transformation that occurred in this country over the course of the 19th century between the ages of Jefferson and McKinley. When and where change occurred and the pace of change will be of prime importance, but the great issue will be the 'why' of change. What caused America to be so fundamentally transformed?" |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century - Business & Economics | Economic History - Political Science |
| Dewey: 338.097 |
| LCCN: 94037654 |
| Series: American Moment |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 6.02" W x 8.96" (0.77 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Previous books on the industrialization of America have focused either on the industrial revolution in the first half of the nineteenth century or on the rise of big industry in the second. In this groundbreaking study Licht provides a new perspective by focusing on industrialization first as a product and then as an agent of change. As population expansion and greater market activity fueled manufacture, he explains, industrialization led to greater social and economic developments as well as crises that required a more administered political economic order. |
Contributor Bio(s): Licht, Walter: - Walter Licht is professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Working for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century, Work Sights: Industrial Philadelphia, 1890-1950, and Getting Work: Philadelphia, 1840-1950. The American Moment.Stanley I. Kutler, Series Editor. |