The Industrial Revolution in America: Automobiles - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 185109749X ISBN 13: 9781851097494

Publisher: ABC-CLIO, 2006

Synopsis

Covers the emergence of the automobile manufacturing, mining and petroleum, and textile industries and their separate and interconnected roles in the overall Industrial Revolution that transformed the United States and the world.

· Sidebars take readers deeper into intriguing topics by spotlighting primary documents such as Walter Reuther's account of the infamous 1937 "Battle of the Overpass," tracts decrying working conditions in New England textile mills, and a firsthand account of Henry Ford's development of the Model T

· Historic photographs depict major events and leading entrepreneurs, inventors, and labor leaders including Walter Chrysler, Henry Ford, Alfred Sloan, John D. Rockefeller, and Francis Cabot Lowell

About this title

Book Description:

The Industrial Revolution was the wellspring from which the modern United States emerged. But look closer at specific industries and you will see the nation confronting the inevitable side effects of modernization for the first time, among them urbanization and a shift from a farm-based economy (textile manufacturing), labor unrest (mining and petroleum), and pollution and rampant consumerism (the automobile industry).

About the Author:

Kevin Hillstrom and Laurie Collier Hillstrom are professional writers. Their published works include all six volumes in ABC-CLIO's The World's Environments series.

About this edition

• Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 185109749X
• ISBN 13: 9781851097494
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 282
• Editor: Hillstrom Kevin, Hillstrom Laurie Collier