The Iron
Bridge
at Coalbrookdale (1779)
De Loutherburg, Iron Works at Coalbrookdale (1801)
The Crystal Palace and the 1851 Exhibition
Industrialization and Imperialism: The Great Exhibition of 1851 (Mosaic)
Redgrave, The Sempstress (1846)
Turner, The Fighting
Temeraire, tugged
to her Last Berth to be broken up (1838); (Smarthistory) (National Gallery)
Wylde, Manchester 1851
Pierdon, "St. Giles" The Rookeries of
London.(1850)
Key Questions
- What was the impact of the industrial
revolution on Europe?
- What is the
relationship between the changing mode of production and the values and
political/social structures being developed in Industrial Europe?
- In what ways did the
changes of the industrial revolution influence the political, social and
economic ideas of Europe?
- What are the
connections between the Industrial Revolution and the Age of
Imperialism.?
Ind Rev Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual
Religious
Ind Rev Art:
Ind Rev Literature:
Primary Sources:
Primary Sources:
Primary Sources:
- Malthus,
On the Principles of Population (1798)
- Smith, Wealth of Nations excerpts (1776) (complete
text)
- Sismondi, from Nouveaux principes d'économie politique
(1819)
- James Watt's Obituary (1819)
- The Peterloo Massacre (1819)
- The Political House That Jack Built (1819)
- Baines, Britain's Industrial Advantages and the Factory System (1830)
- Excerpts from Sadler Commission Report On Child Labor (1832)
- Kay-Shuttleworth, "The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes of Manchester" (1832)
- Ure, from The
Philosophy of Manufactures (1835)
- Industrial Manchester in the Nineteenth Century
- Chartist
Petition 1837
- Bentham, "On Pain and Pleasure" (Mosaic)
- Emerson, Self-Reliance (excerpt) (1841) (Complete works)
- Mayhew,
from London Labour and the London Poor
(intro) (1862); "Prostitution in Victorian London" (1862); 'Those That Will Not Work,' see Spartacus and complete text: volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4
- Smiles, Self-Help (1859); Thrift (1875)
- Marx, Introduction
to "A
Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right"
(1844); Communist Manifesto (1848); on
Alinenated Labor ; from Das
Kapital (1867)
- Engels, "Industrial Manchester"in The Conditions of the Working Class in England
(1844)
- Booth, Inquiry into the life and
labour of the people in London (1886)
(Poverty Maps of London)
- Kanatchikov, "At the Mytischensk Factory"
(1897)
Daumier, The Third Class Carriage (1863)
Pissaro, L'avenue de l'Opera,
Sunlight, Winter Morning.
(1898)
- Darby, The Iron Bridge at Coalbrookdale (1779)
- De Loutherburg, Iron Works at Coalbrookdale (1801)
- Turner,
The Fighting Temeraire (1838); (Smarthistory) (National Gallery)
Turner, Rain,
Steam and Speed: The Great Western Railway (1844) (Smarthistory)
- Pierdon, "St. Giles" The Rookeries of London.(1850)
- Wylde, Manchester 1851
- The Great Exhibition of 1851; (Victorian Web) (1851)
- Frith, The Railway Station (1862)
- Daumier,
The Third Class Carriage (1863)
- Dore, from London: A Pilgrimage (1872);(UVA) (Spartacus) (Gilman ppt.)
- Monet, Saint-Lazare Station (1877)
- Renoir, The Luncheon of the Boating Party
(1881)
- Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergeres
(1881-82)
- Eiffel,
Eiffel Tower (1889)
- Monet, La cathedrale de Rouen, (1893)
- Pissaro, L'avenue de l'Opera, Sunlight, Winter Morning (1898)
Thomas Newcomen's "atmospheric engine."
Boulee, Cenotaph
to Newton (1784)
- Hugo, Notre Dame of Paris, chapter on the
beggars' quarter (1831) (complete text)
- Shelley, Frankenstein (1831)
- Sue, The Mysteries of Paris (1843)
- Disraeli, from Sybil, or the Two Nations (1845)
- Gaskell,
from Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (1848); "The Manchester Marriage"
- Wordsworth, from The Prelude: Residence
in London (1850)
- Dickens, A Description of Coketown
- Poe, "The Black Cat" (1843); "The Masque of the Red Death" (1842); "The Raven" (1845); "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841)
- Dostoevsky, "The
Most Precious Thing for Man" from Notes from Underground
(1864); The Crystal Palace Model; "Raskolnikov's Terrible Dream",
Chapter 5 of Crime and Punishment
(1865); "Parable of the Grand Inquisitor"
from The Brothers Karamazov (trans.
Garnett) (1879)
- Gissing, from The Netherworks (1889)
Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1856)
- Baudelaire, Fleurs
du Mal (part two) (1861); Selected Poems
- Hardy,
from Jude the Obscure (1896)
- de Maupassant, Two Short Stories; (Complete
Original Short Stories)
- Zola,
Four Stories: "Nana";
"The Miller's Daughter"; "Captain Burle";
"Death of Olivier Becaille"; Germinal (1885)
Renoir,
The Luncheon of the
Boating Party (1881)
Frith, The Railway Station (1862)
Ind Rev Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual
Religious
Ind Rev Art:
Ind Rev Literature:
Secondary Sources:
Secondary Sources:
Secondary Sources:
- 26 Three-field crop rotation and the origins of Western technology
[agriculture, grain, protein, horse, ox, plow, White] - 19 The Crystal Palace and the great 1851 exhibition
[Paxton, Queen Victoria, Brunel, design, architecture] - 2277 Pondering the Luddites as we face our own brave new world
- Making the Modern World
- Landes, Prometheus Unbound (1969)
- Industrialism: Progress or Decline: Overview
(Norton Anthology Victorian Topics)
- Poverty, Health and Housing (Spartacus)
- Wade, In Dusty Archives,
a Theory of Affluence, NY
Times (2007)
- Carr, Malthus was wrong The
Economist (2007)
- The Origins of the Industrial Revolution in
England (Kreis)
- Industry and Invention (BBC History)
- Industrialization (BBC History)
- 1726 The Lunar Society and eighteenth century revolution
- 135 On learning to use coal
- 1942 Before the steam engine: seeing solidity in air and steam
- 1953 Learning to Use Steam in the Seventeenth Century
- 1989 I didn't have a choice -- or did I?
- 1440 Steam engines in England during the 18th century
- 1686 In which steam engines struggle to teach us thermodynamics
- 2191 The steam boiler as neglected part of steam engine development
- 2015 Five Hornblowers and three generations of steam engine development
- 109 High-pressure steam engines and transportation
- 1971 In which Lamé, Cauchy, and Kummer race to prove Fermat’s last theorem
- 1405 Marc Isambard Brunel and his son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- 1791 The Thames Tunnel: Heroic engineering and its promotion
- 550 Crossing the Atlantic under steam -- 1819 and 1838
- 101 Interchangeable parts
- 2277 Pondering the Luddites as we face our own brave new world
- 147 Hydrogen, hot air balloons, 19th century chemistry
- 1674 Fulton's last boat: the steam-powered Battery-Catamaran
- 274 The Luddites and thoughts about technological change.
- 1447 18th-C factory maintenance: messier than Diderot showed us
- 272 The railroads and standard time
- 587 Alexander Graham Bell invents after the telephone.
- 629 Johann Gregor Mendel: the shy creator of modern genetics
- 678 James Watt, Joseph Black, and the separate condenser
- 704 Arago, Humboldt, and Gay-Lussac set the course of 19th century science
- 1333 Energy is pure delight, the conservation of energy
- 1388 A short history of tunneling
- 1258 Inventing the steamboat, inventing the riverboat
- 1397 John Fitch and America's first successful steamboat
- 1674 Fulton's last boat: the steam-powered Battery-Catamaran
- 1411 The role of notation in John Dalton's atomic theory
- 1424 La Sylphide: an elemental in the Industrial Revolution
- 1572 High-pressure steam engines and transportation
- 1604 In which hydrogen balloons bind science to technology
- 1615 On learning to use coal
- 1684 In which we study an old machinist's handbook
- 2263 Delaunay Deslandes misses the Industrial Revolution
- Industrial Revolution 1848-1907
(Smarthistory)
- Color, Vision and Art: The Science of
Vision and the Emergence of Modern Art
- The Great
Exhibition - a wonder of the Victorian world (BBC Radio)
- Baudelaire, "The Painter of Modern Life" (1863)
- Judt, "The Glory of the Rails" (part one; part two) NYRB Dec. 2010
- Claire Bates, Turner's Fighting Temeraire - Britain's journey from sail to steam BBC History
- Thackeray on Turner's "The Fighting Temeraire"
- Simon Schama lectures on Turner at the Met, "Turner and the Romance of Britain," (in 8 parts): Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8
- 529 Panoramas: The IMAXs of 1800
- 1366 Rain, Steam, and Speed: Turner's vision of modern times
- 1960 Speed: the grand nineteenth-century invention
- 1962 Rockets, jets, and other (inherently fast) recoil propulsion systems
- The France of
Victor Hugo
- The roman-feuielleton
serialized fiction and the first French detective stories
- Industrialization and Imperialism: The Great
Exhibition of 1851 (Mosaic)
- Victorian
Realism - how real? (BBC
Radio)
- Ruskin, The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century and On Painters (1884)
- 335 Erasmus Darwin, poet laureate of the Industrial Revolution
- 18 How some contemporary poets saw the Industrial Revolution
- 291 The French horn and the industrial revolution
Ind Rev Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual
Religious
Ind Rev Art:
Ind Rev Literature:
Lesson Plans and Presentations:
Lesson Plans and Presentations:
Lesson Plans and Presentations:
- Spragins, Industrial Revolution Links Page
- Julius, Industrial Rev Theories Reading Guide ; Lecture; Practices Reading Guide
Doherty, Romantic Opera and Orchestral Music (ppt)