The study of the Industrial Revolution as well as the study of the titans of industry has greatly been affected by the innovation of great inventers such as Thomas Edison and Nicholas Tesla. Such great innovators made it possible for the Industrial Revolution to occur as rapidly as it did, and the study of these individuals has greatly affected how the Industrial Revolution has been viewed. My paper will be a historiograpical paper focusing on the approach historians took as they studied the inventors/innovators and how the way those inventors and innovators affected how the Industrial Revolution is viewed. Historiography is the study of the historians who researched, and wrote about a particular topic and how their personal biases and the era in which they wrote affect how history is viewed. More specifically, for my …show more content…
This article will be important to my paper as it will provide a look into how monopolies and industry was viewed getting ready to head into WWII where we know industry was crucial for the allies to win the war.
Mizruchi, Mark S. “Relations Among Large American Corporations, 1904-1974.” Social Science History 7, no. 2 (1983): 165-82. This article looks at American industry in corporations from the beginning of the twentieth century up to the mid nineteen seventies. It discusses corporation and trusts, and the impact huge conglomerates had on society. This will be important for my paper because it is one of the few articles I will be using that looks at such a large scope of time, so author bias from the nineteen eighties will be illustrated over a large number of topics and vast number of years.
Hidy, Ralph W. “Development of Large-Scale Organization: The Standard Oil Company.” The Journal of Economic History 12, no. 4 (1952):