Description
During the nineteenth century, Scranton was the face of innovation,
immigration, industrialization, and a rising America. Scranton was “the
electric city” when electricity was the most exciting invention in the
world, and a hub of technology and innovation—between 1840 and 1902, the
city of Scranton changed from a lazy backwoods community to a modern
industrial society with 100,000 residents. During this time, Scranton’s
citizens desperately tried to adapt their thinking to keep up with the
overwhelming changes around them, and in the process forged the world
views that would define the twentieth century. As globalization,
technology and immigration transform the United States today, this book
revisits how the people the forefront of the industrial revolution moved
from chaos to a new order, and how they found meaning within a rapidly
changing world.
