Industrializing America

The Nineteenth Century
Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-0-8018-5014-1
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 349 g

Reihe: The American Moment

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Licht, Walter

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Marketing
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.