Frontiers of Change: Early Industrialization in America

by Thomas Childs Cochran

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195028759
• ISBN13: 9780195028751
• Release Date: April 1981
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.