Ambrose, S. E. Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. An engaging work by one of America’s leading historians who provides keen insight regarding the complex personalities and significant challenges involved in the gargantuan project to construct the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s.
Heilbronner, R. L., & Singer, A. The Economic Transformation of America. New York: Harcourt Brace Javonovich, 1977. Sees American industrial growth tied to a realignment of economic relationships surrounding work and institutional structures.
Hindle, B., & Lubar, S. Engines of Change: The American Industrial Revolution, 1790-1860. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986. Uses artifacts located in the Smithsonian to discuss technological development in America and from that point develops broader themes.
Knight, W L. L. D., ed. Poetical Works. Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1884 (http://wwwgutenberg. org/ebooks/10219). A collection of the poetry of William Wordsworth.
North, D. C. The Economic Growth of the United States 1790-1860. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1966. Emphasizes the role of social structures and sanctions in supporting industrial development.
Olson, J. S. Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in America. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. Useful compilation of selected topics related to industrialization in America from colonial times to the early 20th century.
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Prude, J. The Coming of the Industrial Revolution: Town and Family Life in Rural Massachusetts 1810-1860. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983. Examination of the ways in which the arrival of industry changed the social and economic tempo of life in Massachusetts prior to the Civil War.
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