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American life during the industrial age
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- Book Synopsis
- This volume explores the Industrial Age (1860-1914), bringing together published and archival primary sources with introductory essays that contextualize a period of extraordinary social, cultural, and economic transformation.The Industrial Age's developments, which included electricity, internal-combustion engines, moving assembly lines, and clock time, posed as much risk and opportunity as do today's innovations. Today artificial intelligence, terrorism, climate change, and the threat of pandemics like Covid-19 threaten our safety and sense of well-being, just as machine production, the labor movement, toxic chemicals and waste, and epidemics like tuberculosis and cholera posed significant challenges in the Industrial Age. This modern and innovative collection features tried and tested topics, such as immigration and labor, along with underexplored ones, such as electricity, abundance, and contaminants. Each chapter includes a historiographical essay exploring the rich historical and sociological scholarship on the period in the United States, while framing the documents and illustrations included in the chapter. American Life During the Industrial Age is an ideal companion to undergraduate and graduate courses in United States history, American studies, the history of technology, and the history of culture and society.
- About The Author
- Alexis McCrossen is Professor at the Clements Department of History, Southern Methodist University, U.S.A., where she teaches U.S. social and cultural history. She is the author of Marking Modern Times: Clocks, Watches and Other Timekeepers in American Life and Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday, and is the editor of Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United States-Mexico Borderlands.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781032777559
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Routledge, (11 December 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 260
- Weight
- 440 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 mm
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