| Description |
1 online resource (3 volumes) : illustrations |
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Gale eBooks
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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? |
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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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
Covers the ideas and social turmoil that marked this transition as well as the machines, manufacturing processes and energy sources that spurred it on. |
| Subject |
Industrial revolution.
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Industrial revolution -- Almanacs.
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Industrial revolution -- Biography.
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Industrial revolution -- Sources.
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Industrial revolution -- Indexes.
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| Added Author |
Outman, Elisabeth M., 1951- author.
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May, Matthew, editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Added Title |
Industrial Revolution |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Industrial Revolution reference library. Detroit, Mich. : UXL, c2003 0787665134 |
| ISBN |
9780787693039 (electronic book) |
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0787693030 (electronic book) |
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0787665134 (almanac) |
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0787665142 (biographies) |
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0787665150 (primary sources) |
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0787665169 (cumulative index) |
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