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Industrializing America

The Nineteenth Century

Walter Licht
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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...

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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.

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Industrializing America is a deft and elegantly written survey of the evolution of the nation's economy through the nineteenth century. What is particularly striking about the book as a whole is the remarkable ease with which Licht incorporates a vast array of historical research on the economy, the polity, society, race, gender, class, as well as technology and industrial geography.

— Michael A. Bernstein, University of California, San Diego.
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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

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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

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Walter Licht

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.
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