Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century / Edition 1

Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century / Edition 1

by Walter Licht
ISBN-10:
0801850142
ISBN-13:
2900801850140
Pub. Date:
04/01/1995
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century / Edition 1

Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century / Edition 1

by Walter Licht
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Overview

"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 nineteeenth 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?"

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 greateer market activity fueled manufacture, he explains, industrialization led to greater social and economic developements as well as crises that required a more administered political economic order.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 2900801850140
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 04/01/1995
Series: The American Moment
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Editor's Foreword
Preface
Introduction
1. Context: Regional Diversity and the Changing Political Economic Order
2. Paths: The Unevenness of Early Industrial Development
3. Reactions: Americans' Responses to Early Industrialization
4. The Civil War and the Politics of Industrializations
5. An Industraial Heartlant
6. The Rise of Big Business
7. Explosions: Social Unrest in the Late Nineteenth Century and the Remaking of America
Bibliographical Essay
Index

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Industrializing America is a deft and elegantly written survey of the evolution of the nation's economy through the nineteenth century. What is particularly striking about the book as a whole is the remarkable ease with which Licht incorporates a vast array of historical research on the economy, the polity, society, race, gender, class, as well as technology and industrial geography.
—Michael A. Bernstein, University of California, San Diego.

Michael A. Bernstein

Industrializing America is a deft and elegantly written survey of the evolution of the nation's economy through the nineteenth century. What is particularly striking about the book as a whole is the remarkable ease with which Licht incorporates a vast array of historical research on the economy, the polity, society, race, gender, class, as well as technology and industrial geography.

Michael A. Bernstein, University of California, San Diego.

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