The Industrial Revolution

scale model of George Stephenson's "The Rocket" (1829)

Handouts (Word Documents)

• Romanticism & Art, excerpts by Jacques Barzun
  
• Romanticism (Powerpoint)
  
• Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)
  
• Charles Dickens, American Notes (1842)
  
• Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (1838)
  
• History, Geology, & Biology (Powerpoint)
  
• Demographics: Population & Mortality The Pursuit of Glory (2008)
  
• An 'Industrial Revolution'? The Pursuit of Glory (2008)
  
• Industrial Revolutions (Powerpoint)
  
• MADE IN CHINA: China's economic boom hits home (2003)
  
• "The Quiet Crisis" from The World is Flat (2005)
  
• Leopold von Ranke & Karl Marx (2000)
  
• "David Friedrich Strauss: Miracle & Myth" (1991)
  
• European Cholera Epidemic (1826-1837) by R. M. Yost
  
• Railroads and the Internet: "The Golden Spike" (2000, Forbes.com)
  
• Industry & Progress: The Great Exhibition (1851)
  
• Paradise Alley: A Novel (2002)
  
• Source Analysis: Matchgirls Strike in London (1888)
  
• How the Other Half Lives (1890)
  
• The Impact of Daily Newspapers (Internet Assignment)
  
• F. W. Taylor, Principles of Scientific Management (1911)
  
• Review of Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (1936)