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Industrialization

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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2009
Subject:
History, modern history (1700 to 1945), Literature
Length:
5,380 words
Publisher:
Oxford University Press

The Romantic age and the cultural and artistic movement of *Romanticism occupy no firm temporal boundaries. In large part, however,

Industrialization

Industrialization   Reference library

Encyclopedia of Global Change

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Science and technology, Environmental Science, Social sciences, Environment
Length:
3,472 words
Illustration(s):
1

Industrialization is the second of the great transformations of the human economy. The first was the beginning of agriculture some

industrialization

industrialization   Reference library

Dictionary of the Social Sciences

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2002
Subject:
Social sciences
Length:
545 words

The process underlying the transition from primarily agricultural and craft production to machine-driven mass production organized on the factory model.

Industrialization and Deindustrialization

Industrialization and Deindustrialization   Reference library

Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2009
Subject:
History, Regional and National History
Length:
3,350 words
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2

The processes of industrialization and deindustrialization shaped and redefined U.S. economic, social, and demographic structures and have influenced the lives

Industrialization.

Industrialization.   Reference library

Walter Licht

The Oxford Companion to United States History

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2004
Subject:
History, Regional and National History
Length:
3,261 words
Industrialization encompasses the growth of manufacturing, the increased adoption of mechanical means of production and natural-resource forms of energy, the spread of the wage-labor ... More
Industrialization

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Michael S. Smith, Katrina Honeyman, Carl Mosk, and Sanjoy Chakravorty

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2008
Subject:
History, Contemporary History (post 1945)
Length:
7,946 words
Illustration(s):
3

[This entry includes four subentries, an overview and discussions of industrialization in Britain, in Japan, and in South Asia...

Industrialization

Industrialization   Reference library

Susan Albertine

The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Literature
Length:
1,763 words
with its complex of change that extended gradually throughout social and economic life in the nineteenth century, produced diverse effects on women's writing. For all women of the working ... More

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