Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age: Technological Innovation in the United States, 1790-1865
(Part of the Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology Series and Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology Series)
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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
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