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Weatherill, L. Consumer Behavior and Material Culture in Britain, 1600–1760.

London: Routledge, 1988. Emphasizes the changing nature of Britain’s

consumer society during the transition to the Industrial Revolution.

Webb, S. & Webb, B. The History of Trade Unionism. London: Green and

Company, 1884. Argues in a similar vein as the Hammonds text con-

cerning the wide disparity between the wealthy and poor in the Indus-

trial Revolution.

Wilson, C. England’s Apprenticeship, 1603–1763. London: Longman, 1965.

Traces roots of Britain’s industrial development to the 1660s and

argues that its dominance in international trade provided a foundation

for rapid economic growth.

Wrigley, E. A. Continuity, Chance, and Change: The Character of the Industrial

Revolution in England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Essay that emphasizes the shift that occurred from a life based on the

rhythm of nature to one in which humans regulated and dictated eco-

nomic behavior.

United States

Ambrose, S. E. Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcon-

tinental Railroad, 1863–1869. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. An

engaging work by one of America’s leading historians who provides

keen insight regarding the complex personalities and significant chal-

lenges involved in the gargantuan project to construct the transconti-

nental railroad in the 1860s.

Heilbronner, R. L., & Singer, A. The Economic Transformation of America.

New York: Harcourt Brace Javonovich, 1977. Sees American industrial

growth tied to a realignment of economic relationships surrounding

work and institutional structures.

Hindle, B., & Lubar, S. Engines of Change: The American Industrial Revolution,

1790–1860. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986.

Uses artifacts located in the Smithsonian to discuss technological devel-

opment in America and from that point develops broader themes.

Knight, W. L. L. D., ed. Poetical Works. Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1884

(http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10219). A collection of the poetry

of William Wordsworth.

North, D. C. The Economic Growth of the United States 1790–1860. New

York: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1966. Emphasizes the role of

social structures and sanctions in supporting industrial development.

Olson, J. S. Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in America. Westport,

CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. Useful compilation of selected topics

related to industrialization in America from colonial times to the early

20th century.

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Prude, J. The Coming of the Industrial Revolution: Town and Family Life in

Rural Massachusetts 1810–1860. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University

Press, 1983. Examination of the ways in which the arrival of industry

changed the social and economic tempo of life in Massachusetts prior

to the Civil War.

Biographies

Chernow, R. Alexander Hamilton. New York: Penguin, 2004. An insightful

work that reveals the character of arguably our most brilliant founding

father.

Dickinson, H. W. James Watt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,

1935. An older but interesting biography of the man considered the

key to the depth and impact of the Industrial Revolution.

Fussell, G. E. Jethro Tull: His Influence on Mechanized Agriculture. Reading:

Osprey Publications, 1973. An interesting work that attempts to sepa-

rate fact from fiction regarding this often misinterpreted pioneer in

modern agriculture techniques.

Latham, J. L. Eli Whitney, Great Inventor. Champagne, Ill: Garrard Publish-

ing, 1963. Examination of the successes and disappointments of one

of America’s important inventors.

Unwin, G. Samuel Oldknow and the Arkwrights: The Industrial Revolution at

Stockport and Marple. London: Longmans, Green and Company, 1924.

Earlier work that discusses Arkwirght’s efforts to establish workable

factory system in Great Britain.

Virginskii, V. S. Robert Fulton, 1765–1815. Springfield, VA: Amerind Publish-

ing, 1976. A readable sketch of the many facets of Robert Fulton’s life

as an inventor and entrepreneur.

Western Europe, Latin America, India, Russia, and

Japan

Bethell, L., ed. The Cambridge History of Latin America. Vol. 6. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 1986. Noteworthy source for the advance

of industrialization in Latin America.

Blackwell, W. The Beginning of Russian Industrialization 1800– 1860. Prince-

ton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1968. Interesting narrative of the

important 19th century social and economic changes that prepared

Russia for its entry into the industrial era.

Cipolla, C. M. Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy,

1000–1700. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. Inc., 1976. Excellent

account of the pre-industrial world of Europe which provides a vivid

contrast to the era of industrial change that followed.

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Dore, R. P. Aspects of Social Change in Modern Japan. Princeton, NJ: Prince-

ton University Press, 1965. Relates the impact of industrialization and

modern economic developments to the rapid change in Japanese

society.

Dunham, A. L. The Industrial Revolution in France, 1815–1914. New York:

Exposition Press, 1955. Survey of the course of the Industrial Revolu-

tion in France from Napoleon to World War One.

Jansen, M. B., & Dozman, G. Japan in Transition from Tokugawa to Meiji.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986. Survey of the dra-

matic events that brought Japan into the modern, industrial era.

Lockwood, W. C. The Economic Development of Japan: Growth and Structural

Change Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1968. Discusses the

remarkable effort undertaken by Japan to alter its society and institu-

tions as it entered the industrial era.

McKay, J. Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Enterprise and Russian Industrialization.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970. Discusses the impact of

foreign investment and technical skill in the early period of Russia’s

transition to industrialization.

Mosk, S. A. The Industrial Revolution in Mexico. Berkley: University of Cali-

fornia Press, 1950. Excellent survey of Mexico’s efforts, albeit largely

unsuccessful, to make the transition to a modern industrial society.

Pomeranz, K. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the

Modern World Economy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,

2000. A detailed work that argues that Great Britain and China had

similar potential until the 18th century, but the former’s resources,

particularly coal, proved advantageous and allowed Britain to take the

lead in industrialization.

Rostislav, A. The Industrial Revolution and Social Progress in India. New

Delhi: People’s Publishing House, 1970. An excellent survey of the

relationship between economic and social change brought about by

the arrival of industrialization in India.

Zelnick, R. E. Labor and Society in Tsarist Russia: The Factory Workers of St.

Petersburg, 1855–1870. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1971.

Highly specialized look at the beginning of the factory age in Russia.

Technology

Bruno, L. C. The Tradition of Technology, Landmarks of Western Technology.

Collections of the Library of Congress, 1993. Combines an excellent

narrative with intricate illustrations to emphasize the complex techni-

cal changes that stimulated and sustained the Industrial Revolution.

Buchanan, R. A. The Power of the Machine: The Impact of Technology from

1700 to the Present. London: Penguin, 1992. Highlights the important

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interaction between man and machine that powered industrial and

economic change beginning in the 18th century.

Burns, W. E. Science and Technology in Colonial America. Westport, CT:

Greenwood Press, 2005. Work dispels the notion that American colo-

nists lagged behind in technical and scientific expertise by demon-

strating important developments and discoveries in agriculture and

early industry.

Cutliffe, S. H., & Reynolds, T. S. Technology and American History. Chicago:

University of Chicago Press, 1997. Stresses the role that technology

has played in the economic growth of the nation.

Eco, U. The Picture History of Inventions. New York: MacMillan Company,

1963. An interesting work which provides numerous and detailed illus-

trations of the significant inventions during the Industrial Revolution.

———. Inventors and Discoverers Changing our World. National Geographic

Society, 1988. A work for the general public that nonetheless provides

vivid imagery.

Karwatka, D. Technology’s Past. Ann Arbor, MI: Prakken Publications, Inc.,

1996. General survey of the role of technology through the ages with

a special emphasis on technology in the Industrial Revolution.

Williams, T. The History of Invention. New York: Facts on File Publications,

1987. An engaging account of the relationship between invention and

economic and societal change.

Documents

Clough, S., & Moodie, C. G. European Economic History, Documents, and

Readings: Major Developments from the End of the Middle Ages to the

Present. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1965. Contains a number of val-

uable documents regarding the pre-industrial and industrial eras.

Pollard, S., & Holmes, C. Documents of European Economic History, Vol. 1,

The Process of Industrialization 1750–1850. New York: St. Martin’s

Press, 1968. A significant collection of documents related to a number

of European countries touched by the Industrial Revolution, particu-

larly in the 19th century.

Robinson, J. H., & Beard, C. A. Readings in European History, 2 vols. New

York: Ginn & Company, 1909. An important source for a variety of

biographical, political and economic documents concerning the Indus-

trial Revolution.

Stephenson, C., & Marcham, G., eds. Sources of English Constitutional His-

tory: A Selection of Documents from 600

AD to the Present. New York:

Harper & Row Publishers, 1937. Important political documents

related to the key economic changes brought about by the Industrial

Revolution.

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Commodore Matthew C. Perry’s Expedition to Japan and Related Activities as

Described in the Annual Reports of the Secretary of the Navy, 1852–1854,

Navy Department Library, Department of the Navy, Navy Historical

Center, Washington, D.C. (http://history.navy.mil/bios/perry_mc_secnav.

html). Important accounts of Matthew C. Perry and his fleet as it

pushed American economic and strategic power into the Pacific during

the middle of the 19th century.

Samuel F. B. Morse Papers, Collection Highlights: The Impact of the Telegraph,

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (http://memory.loc.gov/

ammem/sfmhtml/sfbmhighlights01.html). Library of Congress site that

provides detailed information regarding the interesting life of Samuel

Morse and includes illustrations of his telegraph and early messages.

‘‘The Rights and Conditions of Women,’’ a sermon preached in Syracuse,

New York, November 1845, by Samuel J. May (http://memory.loc.gov/

cgi-bin). Library of Congress source that is part of a larger collection

on the movement for women’s suffrage and rights in the 19th and

early 20th centuries.

Journals and Periodicals

The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 48, Issue 289 (November 1881).

The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 84, Issue 502 (August 1899).

The Century Magazine , Vol. 55, No. 2 (December 1897).

Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 67, No. 398 (July 1883).

Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 68, No. 408 (May 1884).

Manufacturer and Builder, Selected Issues (January 1863– April 1893).

The North American Review, Vol. 140, No. 342 (May 1885).

Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6 (December 1889).

Scientific American, Selected Issues (October 1846–June 1857).

Smithsonian, Vol. 36, Nos. 2, 10 &11 (May 2007, January 2008, and February

2008).

Documentaries

Burke, J. Connections (BBC, 1978), Connections 2 (TLC, 1994), and Connec-

tions 3 (TLC, 1997). Innovative and highly acclaimed series on the

relationship between science, technology and social change.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex. This PBS website contains a number of su-

perb documentaries related to the age of industrialization in America.

Examples include: Chicago, City of the Century; New York; and other

pieces covering the transatlantic cable, transcontinental railroad, and

biographies of persons such as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller.

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Websites

http://www.milestoneswebcom/features/telford.htm. An excellent overview of

Telford’s enormous contributions.

http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/htm. Contains a wealth of infor-

mation on Jacob Riis, one of America’s premier social reformers.

http://www.cieh.org/htm. Site for the Chartered Institute of Environmental

Health which contains excellent information regarding Edwin Chad-

wick’s efforts to reform public health in Great Britain.

http://www.nps.gov/edis. Excellent site for study of the life and tireless

inventive spirit of Thomas Edison.

http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/thurston/1878. Lists a number of

documents related to the history of the steam engine.

http://www.RobertFulton.org. Summary of the life and contributions of Rob-

ert Fulton.

http://cottontimes.co.uk/workers1/.html. Excellent source of information

concerning the origin and growth cotton industry in Great Britain.

http://www.nps.gov/archive/lowe. Surveys the origins and life of the Lowell

mills.

http://bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/tull_jethro.shtml. Informative sum-

mary of Jethro Tull’s life.

http://bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/bakewell_robert.shtml. Highlights

Bakewell’s experiments with cattle and sheep.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/british/victorians. British Broadcasting Company site

that looks at the impact of the Industrial Revolution in the Victorian

Age.

http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1981. Provides suggestions for

course topics and outlines related to the Industrial Revolution.

http://www.victorianweb.org/economics. Wide-ranging web site that

addresses a number of topics related to the Industrial Revolution.

http://www.manchester2002-uk.com. Detailed account of the impact of

industrialization on Manchester in the 19th century.

http://www.surreycc.gov.uk. Account of the impact of the Agricultural Revo-

lution in Surrey County, England.

http://www.swetland.net/cumberland.htm. Discussion of construction of the

first major turnpike in the United States.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tcrr. Excellent account of the building of the

transcontinental railroad.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/peopleevents/e_expo.html. A survey of the

nation’s 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

http://www.chicagohistory.org/hadc/chronology/html. Site provides details of

the Haymarket Affair in Chicago.

http://www.eriecanal.org. Survey of the construction of the Erie Canal.

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http://www.nrhs.com/archives/trainwreck.htm. Site provides interesting anec-

dotal information regarding railroad history.

http://www.pbs.org/empires/victoria/history. Surveys a number of topics

related to the Industrial Revolution during the reign of Queen Victo-

ria.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook20.html. Internet modern

history sourcebook—19th century Britain. Excellent resource for class-

room use in teaching Industrial Revolution.

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INDEX

accidents: railroads, 96–97;

steamboats, 94

Adams, Henry: view on America at

the turn of the 20th century,

115–116

Adams, John, 202

Agricultural Revolution, 25;

agrarian worker productivity,

34–36; new farming techniques,

30–34. See also enclosure

movement; seed drill; sheep

breeding

Alison, William P., 171

Ambrose, Stephen, 97

American Federation of Labor

(AFL), 106

American Philosophical Society,

108, 174

American Revolution, 81

American System, 110

American Telegraph Company,

183. See also telegraph

companies

Ancien Regime, 121

Annals of Agriculture, 34. See also

Young, Arthur

Appleton, Nathan, 103

Arkwright, Richard, 47, 157–160,

167–68, 176–77. See also factory

system

Army Topographic Corps: survey

of routes for transcontinental

railroad, 98

Atlantic System, 18; exports, 19

atmospheric engine, 184–85. See

also Newcomen, Thomas

Bakewell, Robert, 32–33. See also

sheep breeding

Bank of England, 19–20; interest

rates, 20; modern banking

practices, 20

Bell, Alexander Graham, 108, 111

Benthem, Jeremy, 169. See also

utilitarian thinkers

Bessemer, Henry, 105, 160–63. See

also Bessemer process

Bessemer process, 161–63

Birkenshaw, John, 187

Blutcher, 186, 187. See also

Stephenson, George

Boulton, Matthew, 198, 200. See

also Watt–Boulton steam engine

Brace, Charles Loring, 114. See

also Orphan Trains

Brady, Matthew, 182. See also

daguerreotype

Bridgewater Canal, 55. See also

Duke of Bridgewater

Brindley, James, 55

broad gauge, 164, 165

Brown, Moses: collaboration with

Samuel Slater on Pawtucket

Rhode Island mill, 82

Brunel, Isambard Kingdom, 163–

66; Clifton Suspension Bridge,

163–64; early projects, 163–64;

railway and steamship

construction, 164–66

building construction, New York

City, 114

Calhoun, John C., support for

transcontinental railroad, 98

Canal du Midi, early French canal

construction, 54

canals: Great Britain, 54–56;

United States, 90 – 92, 191–92.