Frontiers of Change

Early Industrialism in America

• Author(s): Thomas Childs Cochran,
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 179
• ISBN_10: 0195028759
  ISBN_13: 9780195028751
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Industries / General , Business & Economics / Commerce , Business & Economics / Corporate & Business History , History / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General ,

Description:... "The best historical study....that we have of American economic growth between independence and the Civil War....Deserves to be widely used in survey courses....ideal for courses in social and economic history, both undergraduate and graduate."--The American Historical Review. Drawing on recent studies in the history of technology, this groundbreaking work offers a new view of the Industrial Revolution in America. The author, an authority on the history of business and the economy, sees industrialization as a culturally inspired change.