Industrial Revolution
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The Industrial Revolution
- The Agricultural Revolution of the 17th-18th Centuries
- The Revolution in the Manufacture of Textiles
- The Revolution in Power
- The Great Engineers
- The Process of Industrialization
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Social and Political Effects
- The Lives of Workers
- Urban Life: New Social Classes
- Social Reformism
- Florence Nightingale (1820-1910): Rural Hygiene [At
this Site]
Life on the farm was not that much of an improvement over a factory. But, eventually, the
social activists turned their eyes on the countryside as well.
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Literary Response
-
William Blake: Preface
to 'Milton', 1804 [At Spartacus.net]
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850): The Excursion, 1814
[At this Site]
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Charles Dickens: Hard Times,
Excerpts [At Internet Archive, from PIMA]
- Charles Dickens: Hard Times,
Chapter 2 [At Mt Holyoke]
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Elizabeth Gaskell: North
and South, 1855, excerpts [At Internet Archive, from Clinch Valley College]
-
Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary
Barton - A tale of Manchester life [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
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Elizabeth Gaskell: North
and South [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
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Elizabeth Gaskell: Cranford [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
- Thomas Carlyle: Signs of the Times: The "Mechanical
Age [At this Site]
- Emile Zola (1840-1902): Germinal,
1885, extracts [At WSU]
- Andrew Carnegie (18351919): The Gospel of Wealth, 1889
[At this Site]
- Horatio Alger: The Boy who Makes Good
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