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Discover the inventors, business leaders, and ordinary workers who created our modern industrial world in a fascinating course taught by a top-rated professor.

Syllabus

  • 01: Industrialization Is Good for You
  • 02: Why Was Britain First?
  • 03: The Agricultural Revolution
  • 04: Cities and Manufacturing Traditions
  • 05: The Royal Shipyards
  • 06: The Textile Industry
  • 07: Coal Mining-Powering the Revolution
  • 08: Iron-Coking and Puddling
  • 09: Wedgwood and the Pottery Business
  • 10: Building Britain's Canals
  • 11: Steam Technology and the First Railways
  • 12: The Railway Revolution
  • 13: Isambard Kingdom Brunel-Master Engineer
  • 14: The Machine-Tool Makers
  • 15: The Worker's-Eye View
  • 16: Poets, Novelists, and Factories
  • 17: How Industry Changed Politics
  • 18: Dismal Science-The Economists
  • 19: American Pioneers-Whitney and Lowell
  • 20: Steamboats and Factories in America
  • 21: Why Europe Started Late
  • 22: Bismarck, De Lesseps, and Eiffel
  • 23: John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil
  • 24: Andrew Carnegie and American Steel
  • 25: American Industrial Labor
  • 26: Anglo-American Contrasts
  • 27: Electric Shocks and Surprises
  • 28: Mass-Producing Bicycles and Cars
  • 29: Taking Flight-The Dream Becomes Reality
  • 30: Industrial Warfare, 1914-1918
  • 31: Expansion and the Great Depression
  • 32: Mass Production Wins World War II
  • 33: The Information Revolution
  • 34: Asian Tigers-The New Industrialized Nations
  • 35: Environmental Paradoxes
  • 36: The Benign Transformation
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Patrick N. Allitt

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