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Author
Series
Kingsbridge volume 5
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The long-awaited sequel to A Column of Fire, The Armor of Light, heralds a new dawn for Kingsbridge, England, where progress clashes with tradition, class struggles push into every part of society, and war in Europe engulfs the entire continent and beyond. The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Traces the rise of the factory and its positive and negative effects on society, from the textile mills of the Industrial Revolution, through the steel and car plants of the twentieth century, to the massive retail producers of today's world.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker--a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia". --
Author
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Contains over two hundred alphabetically arranged articles that provide information about key individuals, technologies, inventions, court cases, companies, political institutions, economic events, and legislation during the Industrial Revolution in the U.S. from 1750 to 1920.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the succession of technological developments that brought about economic changes in the United States from the time of the American Revolution up to the end of the twentieth century.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the author of 1491--the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas--a deeply engaging new history that explores the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together--and marked the beginning...
10) Roller skates
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c1964
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The true story of what happened the first time machines came for human jobs, when an underground network of 19th century rebels, the Luddites, took up arms against the industrialists that were automating their work - and how it explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech today.
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Defines and helps children explore the terms Gold Rush, Great Depression, Industrial Revolution and more. Divided into segments, the program is designed to reinforce and support a child's comprehension and retention of these terms through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics and labels. Viewers will see and hear the terms used in a variety of contexts, providing a model for how to appropriately use the words....
Publisher
Passion River Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Twenty six year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist's son, who investigated the sordid birth of the British working-class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx's new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police's repression, riots and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement during its...
Author
Language
English
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Description
A masterpiece of breathtaking scopea brilliantly conceived epic novel that traces the entire turbulent course of English history. This rich tapestry weaves a compelling saga of five familiesthe Wilsons, the Masons, the family of Porteus, the Shockleys, and the Godfreyswho reflect the changing character of Britain. As their fates and fortunes intertwine over the course of the centuries, their greater destinies offer a fascinating glimpse into the future....
16) The blue door
Author
Series
Quilt trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When her grandmother sends her alone on a difficult journey up North, fourteen-year-old Amanda encounters the exploitation of women in textile mills.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A diary account of thirteen-year-old Anetka's life in Poland in 1896, immigration to America, marriage to a coal miner, widowhood, and happiness in finally finding her true love.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and immigrates to New York City, where she works for three years sewing lace and earning money to bring Grandmother to the United States, too.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In the thirty years after the Civil War, the United States blew by Great Britain to become the greatest economic power in world history. That is a well-known period in history, when titans like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan walked the earth. But as Charles R. Morris shows us, the platform for that spectacular growth spurt was built in the first half of the century. By the 1820s, America was already the world{u2019}s most productive...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Despite horrible conditions at the boys' home where kidnappers left him, eleven-year-old Colley, an orphan, finds a reason and a way to live, along with comradeship.
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