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Allitt, Patrick.
Subjects
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom, 1806-1859.
Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937.
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919.
Industrial revolution.
Industrial revolution -- Great Britain -- History.
Industrial revolution -- United States -- History.
Industrialization.
Industrialization -- History.
Industrialization -- Environmental aspects.
Industrialization -- Europe -- History.
Textile industry -- History.
Mass production -- History.
Railroads -- History.
Manufacturing processes -- History.
Manufacturing industries.
Mineral industries.
Industrial policy.
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Allitt, Patrick.
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom, 1806-1859.
Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937.
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919.
Industrial revolution.
Industrial revolution -- Great Britain -- History.
Industrial revolution -- United States -- History.
Industrialization.
Industrialization -- History.
Industrialization -- Environmental aspects.
Industrialization -- Europe -- History.
Textile industry -- History.
Mass production -- History.
Railroads -- History.
Manufacturing processes -- History.
Manufacturing industries.
Mineral industries.
Industrial policy.
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The industrial revolution [videorecording (
DVD
)] / Patrick N. Allitt.
by
Allitt, Patrick.
Teaching Co., c2014.
Call #:
DVD
909
.81
A439ir
Subjects
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom, 1806-1859.
Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937.
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919.
Industrial revolution.
Industrial revolution -- Great Britain -- History.
Industrial revolution -- United States -- History.
Industrialization.
Industrialization -- History.
Industrialization -- Environmental aspects.
Industrialization -- Europe -- History.
Textile industry -- History.
Mass production -- History.
Railroads -- History.
Manufacturing processes -- History.
Manufacturing industries.
Mineral industries.
Industrial policy.
Series
Great courses (
DVD
)
Great courses (
DVD
). Modern history.
ISBN:
9781629970967 (set)
Alternate title:
Great Courses. The industrial revolution [videorecording (
DVD
)]
Format:
[videorecording (
DVD
)] /
Description:
6 videodiscs (ca. 18 hrs.) : digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (viii, 273 p. ; 19 cm.).
Notes:
"36 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture"--Container.
Book contains lecture transcripts and outlines, timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.
Home use only.
Contents:
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.
Performers:
Lecturer, Professor Patrick N. Allitt (Emory University).
Summary:
These 36 half-hour lectures discuss the ways in which industrialization have shaped the world we know today.
Genre:
Filmed lectures.
Educational films.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Teaching Company.
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