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Problems related to industrialization and urbanization (1750—1914)

Human/Physical Geography, Change, economic Systems, Urbanization, Factors of Production, Environment, Human Rights, Conflict

                 

                General:

Industrialization:  The First Phase:  1700-1850:  Description of early industrialization, water power, steam power, iron making, textile manufacture, 

                http://www.emayzine.com/lectures/indust~2.htm

 

Library of Congress, American Memories Collection - Around the World in the 1890's Photographs from World's Transportation Committee travels through North Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wtc/wtchome.html

 

                Urbanization

Library of Congress' Geography and Map Division web pages containing Panoramic (Birds'-eye view) Maps of Cities and Towns in the U.S., 1847-1920

                http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/panhome.html

 

 

Change, Economic Systems, Factors of Production:

British Museum's "Compass" on-line collection -- images and explanations of 5000 objects from early civilizations to today, click on "Search" and type in term, "steam engine" to view 1790's British copper half-penny coin made by steam-engine coin press, with explanation:

                http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/

 

                Change, Factors of Production:

 

Article:  "The Two Countries that Invented the Industrial Revolution" by Curt Anderson -- Explores role of early British and American inventors of industrial machines and processes:

                http://www.darex.com/indurevo.htm

 

                Human Rights

 

                William Blackstone “Of Husband and Wife” (1765):  Description of legal status and rights of married women in 18th Century England (and America)(scroll down page to this heading):

http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/marriage

 

                John Adams, Letter to James Sullivan (May 26, 1776) (this American founding father’s views on why persons who own no property, and women, should not be allowed to vote):

http://www.founding.com/library/lbody.cfm?id=135&parent=54

 

Debate on woman suffrage (right to vote) in the Senate of the United States, 2d session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887 (scroll down page to read text, or click on “page image” to see original text):

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/naw:@field+(SOURCE+@band(rbnawsa+n4960)):@@@$REF$

 

Factors of Production

                               

An 1870's Iron Making primer: How iron was made in the Nineteenth Century (U.S.)

(Under "Manifest" first click on "Industrial Archaeology" and then on this topic):

http://users.stargate.net/~vagelk/

 

Early Films of New York City (1898-1906), from L.O.C. American Memories Collection (click on "New York City - Films - 1898-1906" in alphabetical "Collections" list at following webpages):

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mdbquery.html

 

                Environment

               

"The Feather Trade and the American Conservation Movement", "Virtual Exhibit" from Smithsonian American History Museum on the first conservation and Audubon Society movements of the late 1800's:

http://americanhistory.si.edu/feather/index.htm

 

"The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920" Library of Congress collection:  books, pamphlets, government documents, manuscripts, prints, photographs, and motion picture footage

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/conshome.html

 

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