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The Industrial Revolution in America: Iron and Steel, Railroads, Steam Shipping (Industrial Revolution in America) by Kevin Hillstrom; Laurie Collier Hillstrom; ABC-Clio Information Services is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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An impressive set of books on the Industrial Revolution, these comprehensive volumes cover the history of steam shipping, iron and steel production, and railroads—three interrelated enterprises that helped shift the Industrial Revolution into overdrive.The first set of volumes in ABC-CLIO's breakthrough Industrial Revolution in America series features separate histories of three closely related industries whose maturation fueled the Industrial Revolution in the United States during the late 19th and 20th centuries, fundamentally changing the way Americans lived their lives.With this set, students will learn how the steamship—the first great American contribution to the world's technology—helped turn the nation's waterways into a forerunner of our superhighways; how the Andrew Carnegie–led American steel industry surpassed its British rivals, marking a momentous power shift among industrialized nations; and how the railroads, spurred by some of the United States's most dynamic entrepreneurs (Cornelius Vanderbilt, John Pierpont Morgan, Jay Gould), moved from a single transcontinental link to become the most influential and far-reaching technological innovation of the Industrial Age,
Who reads The Industrial Revolution in America: Iron and Steel, Railroads, Steam Shipping (Industrial Revolution in America)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kevin Hillstrom; Laurie Collier Hillstrom; ABC-Clio Information Services
- Publisher
- ABC-CLIO; ABC-CLIO, LLC
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781851097494
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Management, Economics
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