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Daily Life in the Industrial United States, 1870-1900 (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series)
Daily Life in the Industrial United States 18701900 - The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series Author:Julie Husband, Jim O'Loughlin 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... more » condensed as rail travel and telegraph lines tied the vast United States together as never before.« less