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Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittake, a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. Born in 1800, Henry's brilliant daughter, Alma (who inherits both her father's money and his mind).
2) The Industrial Revolution with 25 projects: investigate how science and technology changed the world
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Nomad Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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Beginning with the Industrial Revolution in England, a guide follows its progression to North America, illustrating the societal changes that occurred as a result of the shift in the way goods and services were created and consumed.
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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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 this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business; one man ruthlessly protects his...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Factories, with their ingenious machinery and miraculous productivity, are celebrated as modern wonders of the world. Yet from William Blake's "dark Satanic mills" they have also fuelled our fears of the future. Telling the story of the factory, Joshua B. Freeman takes readers from the textile mills in England that powered the Industrial Revolution to the steel and car plants of twentieth-century America, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, to today's...
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Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The Industrial Revolution brought massive change to the United States. Not only did the workforce change, but family life, childhood, and the economy changed completely. From that point on, the United States was permanently changed. Through this look at the Industrial Revolution, even reluctant readers will learn key social studies concepts and historical facts. With achievable text and factboxes calling out important people and events, readers will...
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Series
Great Exhibtion volume 1
Publisher
B & H Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Kate and Christopher Dearing's lives turn upside down when their father loses everything in a railroad land speculation. The siblings are shipped off to their mother's brother in England with one edict: marry money. At twenty-seven years old, Kate has the stigma of being passed over by eligible men many times and that was before she had no dowry. Christopher would like nothing better than to make his own way in the world; and with a law degree and...
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Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Annabelle Stirling is a cloth merchant in Leeds in Regency Britain who, in her enthusiasm for the industrial revolution, runs afoul of a group of Luddites, one of whom is her fiance and another her brother, Wesley who destroy her new milling machine. When the authorities refuse to help, Belle naively thinks a royal audience will get justice done, and she journeys to London from Yorkshire to present her case at Parliament. The prince regent isn't much...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
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English
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In graphic novel format, retells Dickens' classic in which Pip, a young orphaned boy enabled by a mysterious benefactor to rise in Victorian society, is educated as a gentleman and snobbishly neglects his childhood friends.
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Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes life during the Industrial Revolution, including the rise of textile mills, children joining the workforce, and the mass exodus from the country to the city.
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Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"This blend of authoritative historic overview and human interest stories recounts one of the most important eras in American history This educational activity book introduces young readers to the Industrial Revolution through the people, places, and inventions of the time, from the incredibly wealthy Rockefellers and Carnegies and the dingy and dangerous factories of the day to the creation of new forms of transportation and communication. By recounting...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"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 of an extraordinary exchange of flora and fauna between Eurasia and the Americas."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Profiles the life and achievements of the inventor whose creation of the cotton gin, as well as a machine that could mass-produce muskets, transformed the American economy and greatly influenced manufacturing.
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