The Industrial Revolution

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Call Number: BOCD 338.097 Al Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	BOCD 338.097 Al Oversize	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Course no. 8950.
"The Great Courses has partnered with the Smithsonian to create ... educational experiences, such as this series on ... inventors and the revolutionary machines that changed the course of history"--Container.
36 lectures, 30 min. per lecture.
Compact discs.
Disc 1. Industrialization is good for you -- Why was Britain first? -- Disc 2. The agricultural revolution -- Cities and manufacturing traditions -- Disc 3. The Royal Shipyards -- The textile industry -- Disc 4. Coal mining: powering the revolution -- Iron: coking and puddling -- Disc 5. Wedgwood and the pottery business -- Building Britain's canals -- Disc 6. Steam technology and the first railways -- The railway revolution -- Disc 7. Isambard Kingdom Brunel: master engineer -- The machine-tool makers -- Disc 8. The worker's-eye view -- Poets, novelists, and factories -- Disc 9. How industry changed politics -- Dismal science: the economists -- Disc 10: American pioneers: Whitney and Lowell -- Steamboats and factories in America -- Disc 11. Why Europe started late -- Bismarck, De Lesseps, and Eiffel -- Disc 12. John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil -- Andrew Carnegie and American Steel -- Disc 13. American industrial labor -- Anglo-American contrasts -- Disc 14. Electric shocks and surprises -- Mass-producing bicycles and cars -- Disc 15. Taking flight: the dream becomes reality -- Industrial warfare, 1914-1918 -- Disc 16. Expansion and the Great Depression -- Mass production wins World War II -- Disc 17. The information revolution -- Asian Tigers: the new industrialized nations -- Disc 18. Environmental paradoxes -- The benign transformation.
Lecturer: Dr. Patrick N. Allitt, Emory University.

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