Uses contemporary documents to explore the Industrial Revolution.
Assume the roles of assembly line workers and produce shirts from start to finish. Negotiate to prevent a workers' strike. The bonus items are a 34 x 22 full-color poster of Industrial Revolution highlights and Famous Faces Cards.
A three volume set plus cumulative index provides a historical overview of the economic, political, and social issues arising from American industrial development.
Profiles people important to the United States during the period of America's industrial development, including Thomas Edison, Mary Elizabeth Lease, and A. Philip Randolph.
Regulating a Pre-Modern, Industrial, Urban Landscape: Street Cleaning, Waste-disposal and Insanitary Nuisances in Sheffield, 1500-1700 Dr Leona Skelton, University of Bristol In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, urban governors ...
These are the stories of four trailblazers who achieved amazing things in difficult circumstances: Known as the "Angel of the Prisons", Elizabeth Fry brought about changes for female and child inmates.
Encyclopedic entries cover the prominent people and events of the period of dramatic industrial growth in the United States.
Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America
The Untold Story of the Industrial Revolution and the American Victory in the War for Independence Benjamin Franklin was serious when he suggested the colonists arm themselves with the longbow.
This is the book that made Ironbridge a place of international pilgrimage, and, in its new edition, provides a 21st-century explanation why!