Daily Life in the Industrial United States, 1870- 1900
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Daily life in the Industrial age was ever-changing, unsettling, outright dangerous, and often thrilling. Electric power turned night into day, cities swelled with immigrants from the countryside and from Europe, and great factories belched smoke and beat unnatural rhythms while turning out consumer goods at an astonishing pace. Distance and time condensed as rail travel and telegraph lines tied the vast United States together as never before. First-hand accounts from workers, housewives, and children help illuminate the significant achievements of the era and their impact on the everyday lives of ordinary people. Readers will learn of a broad range of personal experiences, while comprehending the importance of the economic and social developments of the period. A chronology, a glossary, more than 40 photographs, and further reading sources complete the work. -- Provided by publisher
Keywords
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918; United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918; Industrialization -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century; United States -- Biography;
Document Type
Book
ISBN
9780313323027
Publication Date
2004
Publisher
Greenwood Press
City
Westport, CT
Department
Department of Languages and Literatures
Object Description
xi, 272 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Language
en
Recommended Citation
Husband, Julie and O'Loughlin, Jim, "Daily Life in the Industrial United States, 1870- 1900" (2004). Faculty Book Gallery. 40.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facbook/40
