COLONIAL EXTRA 1

PART ONE

AFTER THE REVOLUTION, THEN WHAT?

PART 2-

WHAT IN THE WORLD...... Industrial Revolution

Industrial RevolutionFROM FORDHAM UNIVERSITY http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.asp#The Industrial Revolution

See Main Page for a guide to all contents of all sections.

The Industrial Revolution

- The Agricultural Revolution of the 17th-18th Centuries

Abraham Cowley (1618-1667): Of Agriculture, 1650 -

Turnips Accounts of the "Potato Revolution" 1695 - 1845

John A. Mazis: The Potato [Modern Account][At UMN]

Field Rotation Animal Breeding

The Revolution in the Manufacture of Textiles

2ND Arnold Toynbee (1852-1883): Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England [At McMaster] Leeds Woolen Workers' Petition, 1786 [At this Site] Leeds Cloth Merchants' Letter, 1791 [At this Site] Defending machinery.

The Revolution in Power

WEB The Steam Engine Library

WEB The Kew Bridge Steam Museum [In the UK]

Thomas Newcomen: The Newcomen Engine [At Internet Archive, from exeter.ac.uk][Sketch picture]

James Watt (1736-1819): The Steam Engine, c. 1769 [At this Site][Picture]

Thomas H. Marshall: James Watt, 1925 [At Steam Engine Library][Full Text]

Richard Guest: Compendious History of the Cotton Manufacture,

1823, excerpts [At this Site]On the application of steam power to cotton looms and the social effects. William Radcliffe: Origin of...Power Loom Weaving, 1828, excerpts [At this Site] The Great Engineers<

List of the Great Engineers [At Internet Archive, from Heriot-Watt]

Charles Babbage Page, (1791-1871) [At Exeter University]

Babbage was a major pioneer in computing.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859): Works [At University of Dundee][Modern summary]

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The Process of Industrialization

Tables Illustrating the Spread of Industrialization, [At this Site]

Spread of Railways in Europe [At this Site]

Camillo de Cavour: Railways in Italy

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Social and Political Effects xxxx

- The Lives of Workers

- - Observations on the Loss of Woollen Spinning, 1794, excerpts [At this Site]
  - The Life of the Industrial Worker in Ninteenth-Century England
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  - Literary Response
  - William Blake: Preface to 'Milton', 1804 [At Spartacus.net]
  - William Wordsworth (1770-1850): The Excursion, 1814 [At this Site]
  - Charles Dickens: Hard Times, Excerpts [At Internet Archive, from PIMA]
  - Charles Dickens: Hard Times, Chapter 2 [At Mt Holyoke]
  - Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South, 1855, excerpts [At Internet Archive, from Clinch Valley College]
  - Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton - A tale of Manchester life [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
  - Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
  - 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 [At WSU]
  - Andrew Carnegie (18351919): The Gospel of Wealth, 1889 [At this Site]
  - Horatio Alger: The Boy who Makes Goo