Daily Life in the Industrial United States, 1870-1900 Husband, Julie and O'Loughlin, Jim

Daily life in the Industrial age was ever-changing, unsettling, outright dangerous, and often thrilling. Electric power turned night into day, cities swelled with immigrants from the countryside and from Europe, and great factories belched smoke and beat unnatural rhythms while turning out consumer goods at an astonishing pace. Distance and time condensed as rail travel and telegraph lines tied the vast United States together as never before.

DOI: 10.1336/031332302X Mouse over the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to learn more about this book or related books published by Greenwood Publishing Group. Visit the Greenwood Publishing Group page for this title: http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/GR2302.aspx

Daily Life in the Industrial United States, 1870-1900 Series: The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series Hardback, 288 pages, $55.00 Copyright ©2004, Greenwood Press ISBN: 0-313-32302-X DOI: 10.1336/031332302X

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