Links for Chapter 11
Mastery of the Machine: The Industrial Revolution, 1764 to 1918
On the Rise of Factories
Cotton Times: Understanding the Industrial Revolution [on the Wayback Machine]: numerous articles looking into the lives of those involved in textile manufacturing in Lancashire, England.
Review of Empire of Cotton: recent book on the international growth of industrialization based on this one product.
Africa: Slavery, King Cotton and the Industrial Revolutions: provocative essay on these interactions.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "Why was Cotton King?": short essay.
On Culture in the 19th Century
Victorian Web: covers a wide range of the literature, ideas, and history of the period.
Grimm's Fairy Tales: A number of the stories translated direct from the original German and with some scholarly analysis.
On Social Reform Movements
Anarchy Archives: “online research center on the history and theory of anarchism” with a few short articles and more links to various sites.
Marxists Internet Archive: primary sources and articles about many kinds of socialist movements in many places.
On 19th-century Science
Geologic Principles--Uniformitarianism: short series of articles.
Charles Lyell: Principles of Geology: brief summary of his theory about the history of the earth.
The Evolution of Charles Darwin: an account of his journey and thinking process.
How Does Natural Selection Work? a brief summary of the process.
What is Darwin's Theory of Evolution? explanation with an emphasis on whales.
Historical Perspectives A Centennial Celebration: Pasteur and the Modern Era of Immunization: short article from 1985.
Our History: a timeline with pictures of Pasteur's accomplishments.
The History of Vaccines: summarized in a timeline.