Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age: Technological Innovation in the United States, 1790-1865

by Ross Thomson

The United States registered phenomenal economic growth between the establishment of the new republic and the end of the Civil War. Ross Thomson's fresh study accounts for the unprecedented technological innovations that helped propel antebellum growth. Thomson argues that the transition of the United States from an agrarian economy in 1790 to an industrial leader in 1865 relied fundamentally on the spread of technological knowledge within and across...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801891418
• ISBN13: 9780801891410
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher