| The Great Workshop: Boston's Victorian Age Contributor(s): Rosenberg, Chaim M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0738524689 ISBN-13: 9780738524689 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC) OUR PRICE: $26.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2004 Annotation: Before the automobile age, when Americans lived close to their families and walked to work, the communities that eventually became metropolitan Boston were busy forging the nation's industrial future in local mills and factories. The Great Workshop examines the growth of these towns and illustrates a time when Boston was on the cutting edge of a new culture, when its optimistic residents saw themselves as the "hub of the universe," actively building a better world. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt) - Business & Economics | Industries - General - Travel | Pictorials (see Also Photography - Subjects & Themes - Regional) |
| Dewey: 338.409 |
| LCCN: 2004107923 |
| Series: Making of America |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 7.14" W x 10.1" (1.38 lbs) 176 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - New England - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts - Locality - Boston-Worcester, Mass. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Before the automobile age, when Americans lived close to their families and walked to work, the communities that eventually became metropolitan Boston were busy forging the nation s industrial future in local mills and factories. The Great Workshop examines the growth of these towns and illustrates a time when Boston was on the cutting edge of a new culture, when its optimistic residents saw themselves as the hub of the universe, actively building a better world." |