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
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
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
http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/marriage
John Adams,
Letter to James Sullivan (
http://www.founding.com/library/lbody.cfm?id=135&parent=54
Debate
on woman suffrage (right to vote) in the Senate of the
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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September 2003