The Industrial Revolution

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Call Number: DVD 338.097 Al Oversize
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Course no. 8950.
Program contains 36 lectures; the length of each lecture is: ca. 30 minutes.
Disc 1: Industrialization is good for you -- Why was Britain first? -- The agricultural revolution -- Cities and manufacturing traditions -- The Royal Shipyards -- The textile industry -- Disc 2: Coal mining: powering the revolution -- Iron: coking and puddling -- Wedgwood and the pottery business -- Building Britain's canals -- Steam technology and the first railways -- The railway revolution -- Disc 3: Isambard Kingdom Brunel: master engineer -- The machine-tool makers -- The worker's-eye view -- Poets, novelists, and factories -- How industry changed politics -- Dismal science: the economists -- Disc 4: American pioneers: Whitney and Lowell -- Steamboats and factories in America -- Why Europe started late -- Bismarck, De Lesseps, and Eiffel -- John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil -- Andrew Carnegie and American Steel -- Disc 5: American industrial labor -- Anglo-American contrasts -- Electric shocks and surprises -- Mass-producing bicycles and cars -- Taking flight: the dream becomes reality -- Industrial warfare, 1914-1918 -- Disc 6: Expansion and the Great Depression -- Mass production wins World War II -- The information revolution -- Asian Tigers: the new industrialized nations -- Environmental paradoxes -- The benign transformation.
Lecturer: Dr. Patrick N. Allitt, Emory University.
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