Votava Pre-IB I

Though Britain was first, how did industrialization shape the future of other countries?

Citation/Noodletools support is at the bottom of this page. 

 Citing the Social Class Profile
(in NT: Choose Print/in Hand and then Chapter/section of a book and
fill in the parts OR build it manually following the example above)

Letter Example

Germany     Egypt     Brazil     Japan     China     Great Britain/UK

Recommended Resources:

Databases and eBooks: 

**Means start with these overview sources

Using the Databases and eBooks from Home or from your personal computer? View the Digital Resources Logins and Passwords page. You'll need to sign in with your @apps to view. Remember, databases will create correct citations for you that you can IMPORT into Noodletools and will translate articles in many languages. Woo-hoo!!!

**World History the Modern Era - A history database featuring shorter, hyperlinked encyclopedia articles, written by ABC-Clio staff. In addition to these articles, you'll find media and primary sources. Example articles are The Second Industrial Revolution, The Industrialization of Japan and the Unification of Germany

World History in Context Database -  A comprehensive database that gathers published information from reference books, magazines and news publications, academic journals and includes primary sources like videos, images, and audio.  Example entries include Brazil's participation in the coffee industry.  A couple of relevant reference books contained in this database are the Ency. of the Age of Industry and Empire,  Ency. of European Social History and the Ency. of Modern China. You can "search within" these books for your terms, like Suez Canal, farmer, peasant or artisan. 

Digital Reference Books - Search our GVRL collection of Reference (Encyclopedia-ish) books. An example of a volume that is on topic is Europe 1789-1914 Ency of the Age of Industry and Empire.  Search using the "search within this publication" box. One of the best books here is the Encyclopedia of Modern China, which includes articles such as "Peasantry 1800-1900." 

Available through KCLS: "Class and Caste Systems in China: 19th Century" and  "Economic Life and Work in 19th Century Latin America." 

Scanned chapters (new 2025) - Chapter 4 (Gr. Britain) of Wyatt's Industrial Revolution book.

Print Books: 

Search the catalog and the cart for relevant books for your search. We added just the basic overview books on the topic to the cart. Search in the Destiny catalog for your particular topic. We can add to the cart, but won't check out since we have four classes. 

Free Websites:

The End of Egyptian Cotton by the New Yorker Magazine - Found by Votava's Egypt groups in 2025, this long article explains the history of this industry in Egypt. This site posts the whole article, rather than the New Yorker homepage wants us to pay for access. 

Brazil: Five Centuries of Change - The companion website to the 2021 third edition of James N. Green and Thomas E. Skidmore’s textbook Brazil: Five Centuries of Change, published by Oxford University Press. This site is hosted by Brown Univ. Also includes some primary source material. 

The International Natural Rubber Market (in Brazil), 1870 1930: from Economic
History Association.

The ‘Urabi Revolt: Egypt vs. British & French Intervention - The ‘Urabi Revolt in Egypt in the late 19th century was a bloody attempt to rid the country of foreign intervention by a site called The Collector.

Britannica.com - (The free version!) "Germany: The Revolutions of 1848-49,"   "Early Modern Japan,"  and "Germany: The Economy , 1890-1914"  are example articles provided by the free version of Britannica. Most likely your topic will have an article on it too! ((It is also at KCLS.org/students if you for some reason need it))

Industrial History of European Countries - Provided by the European Route of Industrial Heritage. Choose your country and be sure to follow the links for more information at the bottom of each article. 

Big Era Seven: Industrialization and its Consequences - A pdf from UCLA highlighting the industrial imperialism by Europe, the United States, and Japan from 1850-1914. Includes primary sources and mentions of all the countries in this research project. 

The 2nd Industrial Revolution by Fordham University. An often-used source for this project!

Derror/Fritz IR Research Below:

Databases and eBooks: 

**Means start with these overview sources

Using the Databases and eBooks from Home or from your personal computer? View the Digital Resources Logins and Passwords page. You'll need to sign in with your @apps to view. Remember, databases will create correct citations for you that you can IMPORT into Noodletools and will translate articles in many languages. Woo-hoo!!!

**World History the Modern Era - A history database featuring shorter, hyperlinked encyclopedia articles, written by ABC-Clio staff. In addition to these articles, you'll find media and primary sources. Example articles are Child Labor, Sanitation Movement 19th C, Rise of Mass Production, and a hyperlinked timeline of the industrial revolution.

World History in Context Database -  A comprehensive database that gathers published information from reference books, magazines and news publications, academic journals and includes primary sources like videos, images, and audio.  Example entries include The "Industrial Revolution in Europe" from vol. 10 of World Eras Ency, "Sweatshops" from the Int'l Ency of Social Sciences book, and a primary source newspaper article "American Women Enfranchised" from 1920. 

Digital Reference Books - Search our GVRL collection of Reference (Encyclopedia-ish) books. An example of a volume that is on topic is Europe 1789-1914 Ency of the Age of Industry and Empire.  Search using the "search within this publication" box.

Daily Life Through History: 1776-1914 via https://kcls.org/students/ - A database of shorter articles centered around daily life during this time period.  Click "Middle and High School Students > "Need Sources Such as Databases..." > Click on A-Z Resources > Scroll to "Daily Life Through History." Login with your 417+student number and password = the last four digits of your student number. Once in the database, click the right arrow until you arrive at "Spheres of Influence 1776-1914" or do a search.  

KCLS also provides access to their eBooks that can be read either in your browser or via the Libby app. Using the login directions above, click on Downloadable eBooks and Audiobooks to view the collection (might want to hit the back button to search the full collection and not just books for teens) and search for your topic. One of interest is The Industrial Revolution by Hal Marcovitz. 

Print Books: 

Search the catalog and the cart for relevant books for your search. We added just the basic overview books on the topic to the cart. Search in the Destiny catalog for your particular topic. We can add to the cart, but won't check out since we have four classes. 

Free Web Recommendations: 

Below are just a few ideas of the types of sources you can find online. Steer clear of blogs and prezis. Go Scholarly! For example, adding site:edu to your search terms will provide only university sites in your results list.  Use the keywords you've gathered from the sources above to get better results. 

What are the Causes and Consequences of the Industrialization? by the Council on Foreign Relations. 

Why Was Slavery Abolished? Three Theories by Trevor Getz. This is the website version of the document provided by your teachers. It is easier to cite the web version than the document from your Drive.  World History Project is the name of the website and Open Educational Resources (OER) is the publisher. :) Child Labor and Women's Suffrage are two other documents your teacher provided that are also available online. Same website and publisher name. Go ahead and search for them online. 

Britannica.com - (The free version!) "Germany: The Revolutions of 1848-49,"   "Early Modern Japan,"  and "Germany: The Economy , 1890-1914"  are example articles provided by the free version of Britannica. Most likely your topic will have an article on it too! ((It is also at KCLS.org/students if you for some reason need it))

Industrial History of European Countries - Provided by the European Route of Industrial Heritage. Choose your country and be sure to follow the links for more information at the bottom of each article. 

Big Era Seven: Industrialization and its Consequences - A pdf from UCLA highlighting the industrial imperialism by Europe, the United States, and Japan from 1850-1914. Includes primary sources and mentions of all the countries in this research project. 

The 2nd Industrial Revolution by Fordham University. An often-used source for this project!

Primary Sources (not required, but great!):

Real historians and  authors use primary sources to gather evidence about the details of history. We learn from images, newspaper articles, court documents, letters, etc. the interesting details beyond the headlines. Primary sources can be found anywhere! They are within books, databases articles, historical newspaper repositories and on the free web, especially in government and museum sites. Think about what type of primary source would have answers to the questions you have and enjoy the search!! In addition to the some of the sites above, the following are great sources of primary material.

Asia for Educators hosted by Columbia University, it has primary source documents for Japan and China. The link takes you to the time period for your research, but not necessarily focused only on industrialization. An often-used source for this project!

19th Century Historical Newspapers and Newspaper Archives from KCLS. Look for articles from the late 1800's describing the building of the Suez Canal, industry or events in your country. The New York Times for example would have articles of major events in your countries, written in English. Search key words, not dates. KCLS has two News archives. Take a look!

Go to the IHS Library's page on Using Primary Sources!

Citations

Two main understandings for citing your sources: WHAT is it and HOW did YOU access it?

**Databases will export the correct MLA9 citation RIGHT INTO YOUR NOODLETOOLS! "Wait, what? That's awesome!" Remember to write in your source at the top of your 4-Box notes page to keep your notes and sources together. Refer to your assignment directions for pre-search focus areas.

Here are the parts for the World History Project articles provided in your Drive by your teachers. We are locating them and citing as a Website - Webpage, rather than a document in the Drive:

Elshaikh, Eman M. "Child Labor and Reform Movements." World History Project, Open Educational Resources, 2026, www.oerproject.com/OER-           Materials/ OER-Media/HTML-Articles/Origins/Unit7/Child-Labor-and-Reform-Movements. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.

Annotations: We are writing brief annotations for each of your sources in the annotation field right in Noodletools. Here are two examples:

"Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire." History, A and E Television Networks, 20 May 2025, 

www.history.com/articles/triangle-shirtwaist-fire. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.

History.com is a companion website to the History Channel, published by A&E Television Networks (Origin). It was helpful to me in that it provided basic overview details of the event and the impact it had on future safety laws and regulations (Value).

Getz, Trevor. "Why Was Slavery Abolished?: Three Theories." World History Project, edited by Trevor Getz, OER, 

2026,https://www.oerproject.com/OER-Materials/OER-Media/HTML-Articles/Origins/Unit7/Why-Was-

Slavery-Abolished-Three-Theories/940L. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.

This World History Project article by Trevor Getz provides three theories about why slavery was abolished. It helped give me ideas for which reason and its impacts I wanted to research further.

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