| Description |
6 videodiscs (1080 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (viii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm) |
| Series |
Great courses (DVD). Modern history.
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| Note |
"Smithsonian" |
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36 lectures/30 minutes per lecture. |
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"Course number 8950"--Containers and book. |
| Contents |
Disc 1. Industrialization is good for you ; Why was Britain first? ; The agricultural revolution ; Cities and manufacturing traditions ; The royal shipyards ; The textile industry -- |
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Disc 2. Coal mining -- powering the revolution ; Iron - cooking and pudding ; Wedgewood and the pottery business ; Building Brittain's canals ; Steam technology and the first railways ; The railway revolution -- |
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Disc 3. Islamabad kingdom Brunel - Master engineer ; The machine - tool makers ; The worker's-eye view ; Poets, novelists, and factories ; How industry changed politics ; Dismal science - the economists -- |
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Disc 4. American pioneers - Whitney Lowell ; Steam boats and factories in America ; Why Europe started late; Bismark, De lesseps and Eiffel ; John D. Rockefeller and standard oil ; Angrew Carnegie and American steel -- |
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Disc 5. American industrial labor ; Anglo-American contrasts ; Electric shocks and surprises ; Mass-producing bicycles and cars ; Taking flight - the dream becomes reality ; Industrial warfare, 1914-1918 -- |
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Disc 6. Expansion and the great depression ; Mass productionwins world war II ; The information revolution ; Asian tigers - the new industrialized nations ; Environmental paradoxes ; The benign transformation -- |
| Performer |
Lecturer: Professor Dr. Patrick N. Allitt, Emory University. |
| Summary |
Topic: History ; -- Subtopic: Modern history. |
| System Details |
DVD, full screen. |
| Subject |
History, Modern -- Videodiscs.
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Industrial revolution -- Videodiscs.
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History, Modern. |
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United States -- History.
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United States. |
| Genre |
Educational films.
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Filmed lectures.
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History.
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| Added Author |
O'Donnell, Edward T., 1963-
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| Added Title |
Great courses, industrial revolution |
| ISBN |
1629970964 |
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9781629970967 |
| Music No. |
ID8950A-01 Teaching Company |
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