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HIST363: Global Perspectives on Industrialization
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COURSE INTRODUCTION
Course Syllabus
Unit 1: Industrialization and Theories of Economic Change
1.1: The Industrial Revolution in England
Industrial Revolutions
Origins of the Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution
1.2: Mercantilism
Mercantilism
Exploration and Mercantilism
1.3: Capitalism and the Invisible Hand: Adam Smith
Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations, 1776
1.4: A National System: Friedrich List
Friedrich List
National System of Political Economy
1.5: The Communist Manifesto: Karl Marx
Karl Marx
The Communist Manifesto
1.6: The Protestant Work Ethic: Max Weber
Max Weber
Max Weber: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
1.7: Creative Destruction: Joseph Schumpeter
Joseph Schumpeter
On the Concept of Social Value
1.8: Import Substitution Industrialization
Import Substitution Industrialization
1.9: The Stages of Growth Theory: Walt Rostow
Rostow's Stages of Growth and Political Policy
Globalization and Development
1.10: Dependency Theory
Dependence Theory
Outgrowing Resource Dependence Theory and Some Recent Developments
Unit 1 Assessment
Unit 1 Assessment
Unit 2: Ancient and Early Modern Industry
2.1: Applying Industry to Agriculture
Why Agriculture Was So Important
2.2: Ancient Industrial Production
Ancient Roman Mining and Quarrying Techniques
Roman Glass
Four Great Inventions
Metallurgical Evolution in Ancient China
2.3: Early Merchant Capitalism
How Did the World Become Interconnected?
Trade Empires
Guilds, Wool, and Trade: Medieval England in a Global Economy
Rebuilding the Silk Road
The Dutch East India Company
Unit 2 Assessment
Unit 2 Assessment
Unit 3: Capitalism, Agriculture, Industry, and Trade
3.1: The Agricultural Revolution in Europe
Where and Why Did the First Cities and States Appear?
18th-Century Inventions that Transformed Agriculture
3.2: Cottage Industry and Handicraft Production
From the Early-Modern Workshop to the Modern Factory
Shifts in Production
3.3: The Columbian Exchange
Exploration and Global Trade
Labor, Commerce, and the Columbian Exchange
The Americas and the Columbian Exchange
3.4: The Atlantic Slave Trade: "Free" Labor from Africa
Summary of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
The Atlantic Slave Trade: What Too Few Textbooks Told You
3.5: Proto-Industrialization and Trade in Qing China
The Macartney Expedition and the Global Economy
Rise and Fall of Canton Trade System
3.6: The Opium Wars and Western Imperialism
The Opium Wars
The First Opium War
Unit 3 Assessment
Unit 3 Assessment
Unit 4: The Industrial Revolution in England
4.1: Coal Mining in England
The Shift to Coal
Lives and Work of Coal Miners in Industrial England
History: The Bedrock of Industry
4.2: The Steam Engine
The Spread of Steam Power
Steam Power during the Industrial Revolution
The Early Diffusion of the Steam Engine in Britain, 1700–1800: A Reappraisal
4.3: Revolutionizing Wool and Cotton Spinning
Textile Manufacturing
Technological Developments in Textiles
Leeds Woolen Workers Petition, 1786
4.4: Resistance to Mechanization
The Luddites
Machine-Breaking in England and France
4.5: The Factory System
The First Factories
The Philosophy of the Manufacturers
The Life of the Industrial Worker in 19th-Century England
4.6: Iron
Changes to Iron Production
Steel Production
The Drama of Steel
Steel
4.7: New Transportation Routes
The Railroad's Effect on Time and Distance
Railways
Manufacturing, Railways, and Industry: Early Days
The Transcontinental Railroad and the Pullman Car
New Transportation Systems
Unit 4 Assessment
Unit 4 Assessment
Unit 5: The Social and Political Impact of Industrialization
5.1: Urban Migration and Growth of Industrial Cities
Urbanization and Its Challenges
The Transformation of Cities and the Urban Experience
19th-Century Cities
5.2: Women as Industrial Workers
Women's Work in the Industrial Revolution
Women's Roles in the Industrial Revolution
Women Miners in the English Coal Pits
The Rise of the Victorian Working Lady: The New-Style Nurse and the Typewriter, 1840–1900
5.3: Widespread Use of Child Labor
The Children That Lived Through the Industrial Revolution
Child Labor during the British Industrial Revolution
Child Labor
5.4: A New Social Order in Victorian England
The Victorian Era (1832–1901)
Industrial Manchester, 1844
Changes in the Quality of Life in the Victorian Empire
How the Mid-Victorians Worked, Ate, and Died
Rural Hygiene
5.5: Wealth from Industry and Global Trade
The Origins of Class Society
The Gospel of Wealth, 1889
5.6: Negative Effects of Industry Prompt Demands for Change
Socialist Economics
Conflict Theory and Society
Documents of the Revolution of 1848 in France
Marx's Theories of Alienation, Class, and Exploitation
Political Ideologies, Movements, Culture, Science, and Pseudo-Science
5.7: Political Reforms Stave Off Revolution in Britain
Why No Revolution in 1848 in Britain?
On Chartism
On the Reform Act of 1832
On the Second Reform Act, 1867
Unit 5 Assessment
Unit 5 Assessment
Unit 6: Mass Production, the Labor Movement, and the Consumer Society
6.1: Large Corporations
The Corporation as a Protagonist in Global History 1550–1750
Good Corporation, Bad Corporation: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Economy
6.2 Invention and Protection of Trade Secrets
Important Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
Inventors of the Age
How Monopolies Form: Barriers to Entry
Telephone and Light Patent Drawings
6.3: Cartels and Monopoly Capitalism
Oligopoly
The Progressive Era and the Rise of Crony Capitalism
The Lords of Industry
6.4: Standardization and Industrial Management: Henry Ford and Frederick Taylor
Henry Ford
The Assembly Line
Frederick W. Taylor
The Principles of Scientific Management, 1911
6.5: Workers and Capitalists in the United States
Life in Industrial America
Capital and Labor
Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor
6.6: Workers and Capitalists in Europe
Mass Politics and the Political Challenge from the Left
Capitalism and Its Critics: A Long-Term View
Estranged Labour
6.7: Workers and Capitalists in Asia
Political Protest in Interwar Japan
Labor Unions in Japan
Chinese Tailors' Strike in Shanghai
6.8: Industrialized Agriculture
Industrial Agriculture
More on Industrial Agriculture
Modern Agriculture Effects
6.9: Mass Communications and Mass Marketing
The Rise of Penny Newspapers and Their Influence on Mass Media
The Evolution of Media
A New American Consumer Culture
What Is Advertising Doing to Your Life?
Unit 6 Assessment
Unit 6 Assessment
Unit 7: Economic Crisis and War in the 20th Century
7.1: Industrial Rivalry in Europe
Division of the World among Capitalist Associations
7.2: Imperialism and the Scramble for Africa
Imperialists and Boy Scouts
Scramble for Africa
Imperialism
More on Imperialism
American Empire
7.3: Industrialized Warfare
World War I
Technology during World War I
Technologies at War
7.4: The United States and World War I
World War I and Its Aftermath
The Great War to the Roaring Twenties
Reluctant Leader of the World and Ideological Challenges to American Capitalism: 1914–1945
7.5: American Boom and Bust in the 1920s
Agricultural Depression 1920–1934
Great Depression: Turning Point and Recovery
The Great Depression
7.6: The U.S. Economy during the Second World War
World War II
Causes of World War II
How Rosie the Riveter Led to the 1950s Baby Boom
7.7: Postwar Planning and the Bretton Woods Conference
The Transformative Impact of World War II
The Affluent Society
The Bretton Woods System
The Breakup of the Bretton Woods System, 1973
7.8: The Marshall Plan
George Marshall's Speech
The Marshall Plan and Molotov Plan
Unit 7 Assessment
Unit 7 Assessment
Unit 8: Alternative Models of Industrialization
8.1: Early Days of the Soviet Union: Lenin's New Economic Policy
1917: Economic Apparatus
1921: Famine of 1921–22
1921: Militarization of Labor
1921: Kronstadt Uprising
1921: The New Economic Policy
1921: Trade Pacts with the West
1921: Workers' Opposition
8.2: The Soviet Union: Stalinist Industrialization
1924: Industrialization Debate
1929: Shock Workers
First Five-Year Plan
1929: Year of Great Change
8.3: The Great Divergence
Silk and the Song Dynasty
Review of the Great Divergence
Technology and Technical Knowledge in the Great Divergence
8.4: The Chinese Revolution and the Great Leap Forward
The Chinese Communist Revolution in a Global Perspective
Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Revolution 1945–1949
Great Leap Forward
The Rebellion of Temporary Workers and the Chinese Cultural Revolution
8.5: Seclusion of Japan and New Industrial Policies
From the Edo Period to Meiji Restoration in Japan
Edo Period
Meiji Restoration
The Merchant's Tale: One Family's Experience of the Meiji Restoration
Black Ships and Samurai
8.6: India: Industrialization under British Rule
Colonial Rule and Its Effects on India's Rural Economy
The Political Development of the Modern Indian State
Infrastructure and Railroads
Unit 8 Assessment
Unit 8 Assessment
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