The industrial revolution
Subtitle: key themes and documents
By: James S. Olson with Shannon L. Kenny
Contributors: Kenny, Shannon L.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781610699754; 9781610699761
Subjects: Industries; Industrialization; Industrial revolution; Technological innovations; History
Description: Contains primary source documents.

This book is a concise guide to the American Industrial Revolution, from its earliest beginnings in the mid-18th century to just after the First World War, covering urbanization, mass immigration, organization of labor, and an immense gap between wealthy industrialists and the poor. It addresses important events, key people, and trends of the time, and examines the era through key themes such as agriculture, business, economy, finance, labor, and politics.
Notes: "Unlocking American history."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-287) and index.
Table of contents: title: Engineer Horatio Allen's Description of the First Run (1851); title: Andrew Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth," North American Review (1889); title: Carnegie's Letters to Frick during Homestead Strike (1892); title: McClure's Magazine Muckraking Expose on Standard Oil and Rockefellers by Ida Tarbell; title: Atlantic Monthly Article on Telegraph Technology (1860); title: Harper's Weekly Report on Construction of the Transcontinental Railroad (July 27, 1867); title: Chicago Tribune's Coverage of the 1871 Great Fire; title: Chicago Tribune's Article on the Haymarket Riot of 1886); title: Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives (1890); title: Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Compromise Speech (1895); title: Political Cartoon, "The Little Boy and the Big Boys" (1901); title: Political Cartoon from Puck, "The Kind of Anti-Trust Legislation That Is Needed" (1902); title: Frederick Jackson Turner's "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893); title: Charles Eliot Norton's "True Patriotism" (1898); title: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906).