Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Industrial Revolution
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The Industrial Revolution
- Wikipedia: Industrial Revolution
- 2ND Arnold Toynbee (1852-1883): Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England [Was At McMaster, now Internet Archive][Full Text]
Toynbee popularised in English the phrase "Industrial Revolution" (it had been used by French and German writers earlier) in these lectures published just after his death.
- WEB The National Archives: Empire and Industry 1750-1850
- The Agricultural Revolution of the 17th-18th Centuries
- The Revolution in the Manufacture of Textiles
- The Revolution in Power
- The Great Engineers
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List of the Great Engineers [Was At
Heriot-Watt, now Internet Archive]
- WEB Charles Babbage Page, (1791-1871) [At
Exeter University] [Internet Archive backup here]
Babbage was a major pioneer in computing.
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859): Works [Was At University of
Dundee, now Internet Archive]
- The Process of Industrialization
- Tables Illustrating the Spread of Industrialization, [At
this Site]
- Spread of Railways in Europe [At this Site]
- Wikipedia: Lieven Bauwens
An
industrial technology spy who smuggled plans from Britan to Flanders, where the steam and textile innovations in the UK first spread to continential Europe.
- Andrew Ure: A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines 1840, full text [Project Gutenberg]
- 2ND Jennifer Tann and M. J. Breckin: The International Diffusion of the Watt Engine, 1775-1825, The Economic History Review
New Series, Vol. 31, No. 4 (Nov., 1978), pp. 541-564 [Jstor]
- WEB The Industrial Revolution in the United States [Library of Congress]
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The Industrial Revolution and the Transformation of the World
- The Industrial Economy in the Context of Ancient and Medieval Economies
- The Great Transition
- 2ND Monica Green, “Black as Death”, Inference: International Review of Science 4, open-access. [review essay of Bruce Campbell: The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the Late-Medieval World (Cambridge University Press, 2016) [Internet Archive version here]
- The Great Divergence
- World Systems Theory
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Social and Political Effects
- The Lives of Workers
- Urban Life: New Social Classes
- The Working Class
- The Industrial Bourgeoisie
- Social Reformism
- Florence Nightingale (1820-1910): Rural Hygiene [At
this Site]
Life on the farm was not that much of an improvement over a factory. But, eventually, the
social activists turned their eyes on the countryside as well.
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Literary Response
-
William Blake: Preface to 'Milton', 1804 [Wikisource]
Contains the words to the later hymn "Jerusalem."
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850): The Excursion, 1814
[At this Site]
- Benjamin Disraeli: Sybil, Or, The Two Nations, 1845, full text [Project Gutenberg]
- 2ND Dr Andrzej Diniejko and George P. Landow: Benjamin Disraeli’s Sybil, or How to Reconnect the Two Nations [At Victorian Web] [Internet Archive version here]
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Charles Dickens: Hard Times 1854
Excerpts [Was At PIMA, now Internet Archive]
- Charles Dickens: Hard Times 1854
Chapter 2 [Was At Mt Holyoke, now Internet Archive]
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Elizabeth Gaskell: North
and South, 1855, excerpts [Was At Clinch Valley College, now Internet Archive]
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Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton - A tale of Manchester life [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
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Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
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Elizabeth Gaskell: Cranford [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
- Thomas Carlyle: Signs of the Times: The "Mechanical
Age [At this Site]
- Emile Zola (1840-1902): Germinal,
1885, extracts [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
- Andrew Carnegie (18351919): The Gospel of Wealth, 1889
[At this Site]
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