1 option
Industrializing America : the nineteenth century Walter Licht
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HC 105 .L53 1995
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Licht, Walter, 1946-
- Series:
- American moment
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrialization--United States--History--19th century.
- Industrialization.
- United States--Economic conditions--To 1865--Regional disparities.
- United States.
- United States--Economic conditions--1865-1918--Regional disparities.
- Capitalism--United States--History--19th century.
- Capitalism.
- Industrial policy--United States--History--19th century.
- Industrial policy.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 219 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Context: regional diversity and the changing political economic order
- Paths: the unevenness of early industrial development
- Reactions: Americans' responses to early industrialization
- The Civil War and the politics of industrialization
- An industrial heartland
- The rise of big business
- Explosions: social unrest in the late Nineteenth Century and the remaking of America.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-213) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801850134 (acid-free paper)
- 0801850142 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- OCLC:
- 31289589
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.