Awards

• Winner of Library Journal Best Reference of 2015 .
• Winner of Library Journal Best Reference of 2015.

Overview

As editor Kenneth E. Hendrickson, III, notes in his introduction: “Since the end of the nineteenth-century, industrialization has become a global phenomenon. After the relative completion of the advanced industrial economies of the West after 1945, patterns of rapid economic change invaded societies beyond western Europe, North America, the Commonwealth, and Japan.” In The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History contributors survey the Industrial Revolution as a world historical phenomenon rather than through the traditional lens of a development largely restricted to Western society. 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, and organizations. They also cover legal developments, disasters, and the environmental impact of the Industrial Revolution. Each entry also includes cross-references and a brief list of suggested readings to alert readers to more detailed information. The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History includes over 300 illustrations, as well as artfully selected, extended quotations from key primary sources, from Thomas Malthus’ “Essay on the Principal of Population” to Arthur Young’s look at Birmingham, England in 1791. This work is the perfect reference work for anyone conducting research in the areas of technology, business, economics, and history on a world historical scale.

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This three-volume reference work sets out to provide a broad overview of the causes, progression, and impacts of the Industrial Revolution in a global context, examining notable historical figures, inventions, movements, and ideologies, and changes in political, economic, and financial structures. Entries range in length from concise one or two paragraphs for biographical or material entries, to much more substantial coverage for political theories or countries...[T]he work succeeds admirably in augmenting the standard reference works suitable for undergraduate collections that treat the subject...The new set provides students and others unfamiliar with the topic a valuable overview of the people, events, and institutions that forever transformed the modern world. Summing Up: Recommended. Undergraduate and technical program students; general readers. CHOICE Editor Hendrickson provides a nontechnical, broad overview of the causes of the Industrial Revolution, its progression, and the impact it had on the world. He looks at notable inventions, movements, historical figures, and changes in financial, economic, and political structures at the time, describing, for example, how the development of a spinning machine by Sir Richard Artwight in England led to a new economy of manufactured products. The iron and textile industries, with the development of the steam engine, played majors roles in an era that saw improved modes of transportation, communication, and banking, and resulted in an improved standard of living for many. This is the best three-volume historical study of the Industrial Revolution to date; it offers a valuable chronicle of the great economic change that affected 19th-century Western Europe, North America, the Commonwealth, and Japan. Verdict: An admirable work that is recommended for all libraries with collections on U.S. and economic history. Library Journal

This three-volume reference work sets out to provide a broad overview of the causes, progression, and impacts of the Industrial Revolution in a global context, examining notable historical figures, inventions, movements, and ideologies, and changes in political, economic, and financial structures. Entries range in length from concise one or two paragraphs for biographical or material entries, to much more substantial coverage for political theories or countries...[T]he work succeeds admirably in augmenting the standard reference works suitable for undergraduate collections that treat the subject...The new set provides students and others unfamiliar with the topic a valuable overview of the people, events, and institutions that forever transformed the modern world. Summing Up: Recommended. Undergraduate and technical program students; general readers. CHOICE

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Kenneth E. Hendrickson, III is professor of History at Sam Houston State University. He is the editor of The Life and Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: An Annotated Bibliography, 3 Volumes (Scarecrow, 2006) and the author of The Historical Dictionary of the Darwin Controversy.

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