Frontiers of Change: Early Industrialization in America

by Thomas Childs Cochran

Drawing on recent studies in the history of technology, this groundbreaking work offers a new view of the Industrial Revolution in America. The author, an authority on the history of business and the economy, sees industrialization as a culturally inspired change.

Genres: History, Economics

192 pages, Paperback

First published April 30, 1981

About the author

Thomas Cochran was Benjamin Franklin Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught from 1950 until his retirement in 1972.