The Industrial Revolution in America [3 volumes]: Communications, Agriculture and Meatpacking, Overview/Comparison

by Laurie Hillstrom (Editor)

The concluding three-volume set in ABC-CLIO's landmark Industrial Revolution in America series offers vivid reminders of how this economic renaissance changed virtually every facet of American life. Communications takes readers from the telegraph to the telephone and beyond, showing how improvements in communication (aided by better transportation) helped create a truly national marketplace. Agriculture and Meatpacking details the shift of agriculture from family farms and local trade to mass production and agribusiness, sparking the development of a full range of farm machinery and spawning the rise of a new metropolis practically overnight. The concluding Overview/Comparison volume looks at the Industrial Revolution as a whole―revealing the impact of various industries on each other and gauging the revolution's broader social and political legacy in the United States and around the world.

944 pages, Hardcover

First published February 22, 2007

Reviews

[Josephine · Rating 1 out of 5]

No footnotes. Each chapter does have a bibliography to help for further research. Writing dry and fails to engage this reader, reminding me why I sometimes shy from non-fiction.