Format:
1 Online-Ressource (3 v)
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ill
ISBN:
9780787693039
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0787693030
Series Statement:
Gale eBooks
Content:
Vol. 1. Almanac: Origins of the Industrial Revolution -- The revolution begins: steam engines, railroads, and steamboats -- New machines and the factory system -- Social and political impact of the first phase of the Industrial Revolution -- The second phase of the Industrial Revolution: 1850-1940 -- How things got bigger: economy of scale -- Social and political impact of the second phase of the Industrial Revolution -- The economy goes global: what next?
Content:
Vol. 2. Biographies: Henry Bessemer -- Andrew Carnegie -- Henry Ford -- Robert Fulton -- Samuel Gompers -- Jay Gould -- James J. Hill -- Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones) -- Karl Marx -- Cyrus McCormick -- J. P. Morgan -- Samuel F. B. Morse -- The muckrakers: Jacob Riis, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell -- Robert Owen -- John D. Rockefeller -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Adam Smith -- George Stephenson -- James Watt -- George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla -- Eli Whitney.
Content:
Vol. 3. Primary sources: Ch. 1. Economic theory: Adam Smith -- Andrew Ure -- Karl Marx -- Andrew Carnegie -- Ch. 2. Technological advances and criticisms: Thomas Savery -- The workers and merchants of Leeds -- The Luddites and Charlotte Bronte-- Newspaper accounts regarding the telegraph -- J. D. B. Stillman -- Ch. 3. Working conditions: Michael Sadler -- Samuel Gompers -- Emile Zola -- Upton Sinclair -- Jane Addams -- William G. Shepherd -- Camella Teoli -- Ch. 4. Politics and law: Progressive party documents.
Content:
Covers the ideas and social turmoil that marked this transition as well as the machines, manufacturing processes and energy sources that spurred it on
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0787665134
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0787665142
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0787665150
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0787665169
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0787665134
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Industrial Revolution reference library Detroit, Mich : UXL, c2003 ISBN 0787665134
Language:
English
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