Contains over two hundred alphabetically arranged articles that provide information about key individuals, technologies, inventions, court cases, companies, pol

As editor Kenneth E. Hendrickson, III, notes in his introduction: “Since the end of the nineteenth-century, industrialization has become a global phenomenon.

This volume in the Problems in American Civilization series is a well-balanced anthology of essays on industrialization in the U.S.

The industrial revolution was the single most important development in human history over the past three centuries, and it continues to shape the contemporary w