The Industrial Revolution in United States History

The Industrial Revolution in United States History
Title The Industrial Revolution in United States History PDF eBook
Author Anita Louise McCormick
Publisher Enslow Publishing, LLC
Pages 98
Release 2014-07-01
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 076606106X

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Imagine listening as Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrates the telephone, or watching Thomas Edison show off his new invention, the automatic telegraph. In less than two hundred years, the United States changed from a rural, agricultural society into an industrial world power. Author Anita Louise McCormick explores the inventions, ideas, and innovators who helped bring the Industrial Revolution from its roots in Great Britain to America.

Memoir of Samuel Slater

Memoir of Samuel Slater
Title Memoir of Samuel Slater PDF eBook
Author George Savage White
Publisher
Pages 636
Release 1836
Genre Cotton
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The Industrial Revolution in American History

The Industrial Revolution in American History
Title The Industrial Revolution in American History PDF eBook
Author Anita Louise McCormick
Publisher
Pages 134
Release 1998
Genre History
ISBN 9780894909856

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This book describes how, in less than two hundred years, the United States changed from a rural, agricultural society into an industrial world power. It explores the inventions, ideas, and innovators who helped bring the Industrial Revolution from its roots in Great Britain to America. It traces the evolution of modern conveniences, luxurious consumer goods, developing cities, and the problems of urban living.

The Administration of Industrial Enterprises

The Administration of Industrial Enterprises
Title The Administration of Industrial Enterprises PDF eBook
Author Edward David Jones
Publisher
Pages 640
Release 1925
Genre Technology & Engineering
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Wall Street and the Fruited Plain

Wall Street and the Fruited Plain
Title Wall Street and the Fruited Plain PDF eBook
Author James T. Wall
Publisher University Press of America
Pages 398
Release 2008
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780761841241

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Wall Street and the Fruited Plain delves deep into the parody known today as the "Gilded Age". The last decades of the 19th century saw both industrial and agricultural explosions in the United States. However, the base metal beneath this glittering façade was comprised of sweat-soaked, underpaid laborers, many of whom had just splashed ashore from Europe's seething cauldrons. In the early years of the period, the nation underwent the wrenching challenge of Reconstruction, nominally resolved in the compromise of 1877. In the Gilded Age, America expanded both internally and externally. The frontier moved from Kansas to California. Trappers, miners, cattlemen, and--finally-homesteaders, with the help of a burgeoning railroad network, fanned out across the central plains and the western plateaus. Wall Street dominated not only the economic and social life of the country, but the politics as well. A series of lackluster presidents between Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt facilitated this dominion and by the end of Roosevelt's first Administration, America had become an adolescent headliner on the world stage.

Sumner Welles: FDR’s Global Strategist

Sumner Welles: FDR’s Global Strategist
Title Sumner Welles: FDR’s Global Strategist PDF eBook
Author Benjamin Welles
Publisher Plunkett Lake Press
Pages 447
Release 2022-07-11
Genre Biography & Autobiography
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“Sumner Welles (1892-1961) ranks among the half-dozen most influential American career diplomats of this century. And among high officials brought down by sexual scandal, he has no rivals. This long-awaited biography by his son Benjamin blends an adequate narrative of diplomatic achievement with a candid and painful description of the subject’s alcohol-fueled bisexual excess in an era when unconventional sexual behavior was often a matter of criminal prosecution... As a diplomat and shaper of foreign policy, Welles, like Roosevelt, showed an appreciation of the importance of power, a liberal commitment to the Good Neighbor policy toward Latin America, cautious support for the establishment of the United Nations and a belief that difficult problems with the Soviet Union could be worked out. He wrote and spoke with educated precision and was able to do more work in a day than most people could do in a week... as a candid, sympathetic portrait of a great and tragic figure in a bygone era of aristocratic privilege, the biography succeeds admirably.” — The New York Times “An absorbing study of an enigmatic character who for nearly a decade after 1933, as Franklin Roosevelt’s trusted adviser, wielded great influence over American foreign policy... While the author treats convincingly the diplomatic episodes in which his father played a significant role, it is as a study in character that the book makes its most important contribution.” — Foreign Affairs “Affectionate yet scrupulously candid, this biography by his son... is an act of homage.” — Publishers Weekly “This is one of the saddest stories of a good soldier that I have ever read. Until 1943, Sumner Welles, an often arrogant patrician who had attended Groton School and Harvard College a decade after Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was one of the most distinguished members of the interwar foreign service, rising to become undersecretary of state in Roosevelt’s administration. He had elaborated the Good Neighbor Policy in the 1930s... he wrote the Atlantic Charter, which Roosevelt and Winston Churchill endorsed in 1941... he drafted the United Nations charter and supported the creation of Israel as a national homeland for Jews... Unfortunately, scandal destroyed Welles’ career... a compassionate but ruthlessly honest biography... Neither harsh nor apologetic, Benjamin Welles shows a deep understanding of his father’s character.” — The Los Angeles Times “Benjamin Welles has provided a very complete portrait, a significant contribution to scholarship in its own right... “ — The National Interest “A fascinating look at a little-remembered contributor to 20th-century history... [Benjamin Welles] is also to be commended for seeing his father’s weaknesses and not pulling punches when discussing them.” — Kirkus “A detailed and sympathetic portrait that does not disguise the flaws of its subject... Benjamin Welles’s book should stand as the definitive biography for a long time.” — Latin American Research Review “This is a graceful ‘life and times’ summary as well as a look at the sometimes troubled personal life of an important figure — a personal life that did affect Welles’s public life. A son’s perspective is unique.” — The International History Review “Benjamin Welles has written the best biography and account of Sumner Welles and his diplomatic career... the scope of research is extensive and impressive... the author has conscientiously laid out his father’s painful personal issues — alcoholism, adultery, and homosexuality — which adversely affected Welles’s career... Welles, the author, has written the best account about his father’s diplomatic career.” — The Americas “The diplomat’s son has done a remarkable job of seeking to present a balanced picture of his father’s service. The book is an important one.” — Presidential Studies Quarterly

The Bay State Monthly

The Bay State Monthly
Title The Bay State Monthly PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 712
Release 1910
Genre New England
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