Industrializing America : The Nineteenth Century / Walter Licht.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Licht, Walter, 1946-

Contributor:

GIC Course Text Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Summary:

"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 19th 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?"

Contents:

1 Context: Regional Diversity and the Changing Political Economic Order 1

2 Paths: The Unevenness of Early Industrial Development 21

3 Reactions: Americans' Responses to Early Industrialization 46

4 The Civil War and the Politics of Industrialization 79

5 An Industrial Heartland 102

6 The Rise of Big Business 133

7 Explosions: Social Unrest in the Late Nineteenth Century and the Remaking of America 166.

ISBN:

9780801850141