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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460865103321

Titolo

The encyclopedia of the industrial revolution in world history / / Kenneth E. Hendrickson III [and three others], editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8108-8888-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1145 p.)

Disciplina

330.9/034

Soggetti

Industrial revolution

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pages:1 to 57; Pages:58 to 114; Pages:115 to 171; Pages:172 to 228; Pages:229 to 285; Pages:286 to 342; Pages:343 to 399; Pages:400 to 456; Pages:457 to 513; Pages:514 to 570; Pages:571 to 627; Pages:628 to 684; Pages:685 to 741; Pages:742 to 798; Pages:799 to 855; Pages:856 to 912; Pages:913 to 969; Pages:970 to 1026; Pages:1027 to 1083; Pages:1084 to 1140; Pages:1141 to 1145

Sommario/riassunto

The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History is a three-volume work of over 1,000 entries on the rise and spread of the Industrial Revolution across the world. Entries comprise accessible but scholarly explorations of topics from the "aerospace industry" to "zaibatsu." Contributor articles not only address topics of technology and technical innovation but emphasize the individual human and social experience of industrialization. Entries include generous selections of biographical figures and human communities, with articles on entrepreneurs, working men and women, families, a