Record details

• ISBN: 9781598038750
• ISBN: 1598038753
• Physical Description: 18 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (viii, 273 p. : illustrations ; 19 cm)
• Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2014]
• Copyright: �2014

Content descriptions

General Note:

Course no. 8950.

"The Great Courses has partnered with the Smithsonian to create ... educational experiences, such as this series on ... inventors and the revolutionary machines that changed the course of history"--Container.

36 lectures, 30 min. per lecture.

"Course no. 8950"--Container.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-273 of course guidebook).

Formatted Contents Note:

volume 1: lecture 1. Industrialization is good for you -- lecture 2. Why was Britain first? -- lecture 3. The agricultural revolution -- lecture 4. Cities and manufacturing traditions -- lecture 5. The Royal shipyards -- lecture 6. The textile industry -- lecture 7. Coal mining : powering the revolution -- lecture 8. Iron : coking and puddling -- lecture 9. Wedgwood and the pottery business -- lecture 10. Building Britain's canals -- lecture 11. Steam technology and the first railways -- lecture 12. The railway revolution.

volume 2: lecture 13. Isambard Kingdom Brunel : master engineer -- lecture 14. The machine-tool makers -- lecture 15. The worker's-eye view -- lecture 16. Poets, novelists, and factories -- lecture 17. How industry changed politics -- lecture 18. Dismal science : the economists -- lecture 19. American pioneers : Whitney and Lowell -- lecture 20. Steamboats and factories in America -- lecture 21. Why Europe started late -- lecture 22. Bismarck, De Lesseps, and Eiffel -- lecture 23. John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil -- lecture 24. Andrew Carnegie and American Steel.

volume 3: lecture 25. American industrial labor -- lecture 26. Anglo-American contrasts -- lecture 27. Electric shocks and surprises -- lecture 28. Mass-producing bicycles and cars -- lecture 29. Taking flight : the dream becomes reality -- lecture 30. Industrial warfare, 1914-1918 -- lecture 31. Expansion and the Great Depression -- lecture 32. Mass production wins World War II -- lecture 33. The information revolution -- lecture 34. Asian Tigers : the new industrialized nations -- lecture 35. Environmental paradoxes -- lecture 36. The benign transformation.

Participant or Performer Note:

Lecturer, Patrick N. Allitt.

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Subject:

Industrial revolution.
Economic history.
Industries > History.

Genre:

Audiobooks.
Lectures.

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