Industrial Age History

The dramatic story of the explosive 1894 clash of industry, labor, and government that shook the nation and marked a turning point for America. The Edge of Anarchy offers a vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history. At the pinnacle of the Gilded Age, a boycott of Pullman sleeping cars by hundreds of thousands of railroad employees brought commerce to a standstill across much of the country. Famine threatened, riots broke out along the rail lines. Soon the US Army was on the march and gunfire rang from the streets of major cities.

Now featuring a new preface by Peter Thiel Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century...

The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving...

In a book that “sets a new standard in economic history” (Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist), acclaimed economic historian Victoria Bateman tells the story of how women made the world rich How many female entrepreneurs, economic revolutionaries, merchants, and industrialists...

Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love, and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different from our own, unfolding in a world where deadly wounds might be healed overnight by divine intervention, or where the heart of a king, plucked from his corpse, could be held aloft as a powerful symbol of political rule.

What if the quirks that made you feel different were the very things that built America? Gilded Age Geniuses delivers hilarious, fast-paced, and inspiring stories of the inventors, business titans, and justice fighters who refused to fit the mold—and ended up changing history. Featuring lively true stories of Edison, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and more, this engaging nonfiction collection makes Gilded Age history unforgettable. Perfect for parents wanting to inspire teens, educators looking for engaging classroom reads, and adults who love ...

From the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in nineteenth-century Europe—Elisabeth, empress of Austria, and Eugénie, empress of France—and their efforts to rule amid the scandal, intrigue, tragedy...

For the captains of industry ? men like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, and Henry Ford ? the Gilded Age is a time of big money. Technology boomed with the invention of trains, telephones, electric lights, harvesters, vacuum cleaners, and more. But for millions of immigrant workers, it is a time of big struggles, with adults and children alike working 12 to 14 hours a day under extreme, dangerous conditions.

Take a front-row seat on the wild, unpredictable ride of a guitarist chasing the American dream through the clubs, bars, and backroads of the 1980s and 1990s rock scene. Chasing Riffs isn’t just a memoir — it’s a living soundtrack of an era when long hair, loud amps, and louder ambitions defined a generation. Blending raw personal stories, including an extensive rock history, it traces the rise and fall of bands, the birth of new sounds, and the shifting rhythm of America itself. From the smoky dive bars to the neon glare of the Sunset Strip, from broken strings to broken dreams, ...

“A monumentally researched biography of one of the nineteenth century’s wealthiest self-made Americans…Well-written and worthwhile.” —The Wall Street Journal A rags-to-riches frontier tale of an Irish immigrant who outwits, outworks, and outmaneuvers thousands of rivals to take control...

Before billionaires became celebrities, before corporations became nations unto themselves, and before oil became the lifeblood of the modern world, one man quietly engineered a system of wealth so powerful it changed history. Black Gold Ascendant is a gripping narrative of the rise of John D. Rockefeller and the industrial machine that transformed crude oil into unmatched economic dominance. This is not a sanitized success story. It is a precise examination of how discipline, efficiency, and strategic control forged the foundations of modern capitalism. Emerging from modest beginnings in ...

Now published in five languages, Strange Medicine casts a gimlet eye on the practice of medicine through the ages that highlights the most dubious ideas, bizarre treatments, and biggest blunders. From bad science and oafish behavior to stomach-turning procedures that hurt more than helped, Strange Medicine presents strange but true facts and an honor roll of doctors, scientists, and dreamers who inadvertently turned the clock of medicine backward.

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution, then this two-in-one books bundle is for you. Includes: Age of Enlightenment and The Industrial Revolution.

For most of human existence, people lived in a somewhat similar fashion. Everything that has been produced, from food and raw materials to clothing and other finished products, has been done either solely by hand or with some help of animal power. This was the same across the eras and throughout the world, no matter how advanced or backward the various civilizations were. Yet, our lives today couldn’t be more different.

Have you ever stopped to wonder what work truly means—beyond the paycheck, the routine, and the burnout? Chains Through the Ages offers a sweeping yet concise exploration of the evolution of work—from tribal cooperation and ancient slavery to the digital demands of our hyperconnected age. This thought-provoking nonfiction journey invites readers to reflect on the deep historical, psychological, philosophical, and technological forces that shape our daily labor. Discover how industrial revolutions redefined human toil Understand how work-related stress reshaped modern health Dive into ...

Step beneath the klieg lights and into the beating heart of old Hollywood. From its dusty beginnings as a Spanish pueblo to its transformation into the world’s dream factory, Shadows and Sunshine tells the sweeping story of Los Angeles and the birth of the film industry that defined the twentieth century. Author Jack Mobley transports readers through the glitter and grit of the Golden Age—an era when ambition, innovation, and illusion fused under the California sun to create modern celebrity and American mythology. This is a vivid, cinematic history that captures both the shimmer and ...

From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political power among society’s members.

On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial that culminated in four controversial executions and dealt a blow to the labor movement from which it would take decades to recover. Historian James Green recounts the rise of the first great labor movement in the wake of the Civil War and brings to life an epic 20-year struggle for the eight-hour workday.

A Waterstones Best History Book of the Year The bestselling history of the North of England as told through the lives of its inhabitants. ‘Entertaining’ The Times ‘Definitive’ The Mirror ‘Highly readable’ Financial Times A work of unrivalled scale and ambition, Northerners is the...

For the first time, Appetite for Self-Destruction recounts the story of the precipitous rise and fall of the recording industry over the past three decades, when the incredible success of the CD turned the music business into one of the most glamorous, high-profile industries in the world - and the advent of file sharing brought it to its knees.