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HIST363: Global Perspectives on Industrialization
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Course Introduction
Unit 1: Industrialization and Theories of Economic Change
Unit 2: Ancient and Early Modern Industry
Unit 3: Capitalism, Agriculture, and Industry
Unit 4: The Industrial Revolution in England
Unit 5: The Social and Political Impact of Industrialization
Unit 6: Imperialism and Industrialization in Asia
Unit 7: Mass Production, the Labor Movement, and the Consumer Society
Unit 8: Economic Crisis and War in the 20th Century
Unit 9: Alternative Models of Industrialization
Unit 10: Globalization and the Industrialization in the Late 20th Century
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HIST363: Global Perspectives on Industrialization
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Unit 10: Globalization and the Industrialization in the Late 20th Century
10.2: Industrial Growth in Asia
10.2.2: The "Four Tigers"
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Steven Kreis' "The Origins of the Industrial Revolution in England"
Turning Points in History: the Industrial Revolution
Laura LaHaye's "Mercantilism"
The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
: "Adam Smith"
Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations, 1776"
Max Weber's "Religious Affiliation and Social Stratification"
Mehdi Shaefaeddin's "What Did Frederick List Actually Say? Some Clarifications on the Infant Industry Argument"
George Frederich List's "National System of Political Economy"
University of the West of England: J. Paul Dunne's "Marxist Economics"
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engel's "The Communist Manifesto"
Joseph Schumpeter's "On the Concept of Social Value"
W. W. Rostow's "The Five Stages of Growth"
Mt. Holyoke College: Vincent Ferraro's "Dependency Theory: An Introduction"
Unit 1 Assessment
Steven Kreis' "A Brief Social History of the Roman Empire"
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Lynne Cohen Duncan's "Roman Deep-Vein Mining"
Rosemarie Trentinella's "Roman Glass"
The Open University: "Imperial Rome and Ostia"
Wikipedia's "Four Great Inventions"
Emma C. Bunker's "The Beginning of Metallurgy in Ancient China"
Copper Development Association: "Copper and Bronze in Ancient China"
Purdue University: Jules Janick's "Agricultural Origins in Asia"
Jona Lendering's "Germania Inferior"
M. P. Gandhi's
The Indian Cotton Textile Industry
Eugen Weber's "The Rise of the Trading Cities"
Bamber Gascoigne's "History of Capitalism"
Assessment: Early Capitalist Development in Europe
Gresham College: Thomas Crump's "The History of the Dutch East Indies Company"
New Worlds in the Americas: Labor, Commerce, and the Columbian Exchange
Mark Overton's "Agricultural Revolution in England 1500–1850"
The Industrial Revolution – Looking to the Past
: "The Causes of Urbanization and Life in Early Industrial Cities"
Urbanization and Its Challenges
The Transformation of Cities and the Urban Experience
Duncan Bythell's "Cottage Industry and the Factory System"
Louise A. Tilly's "Connections"
Joseph E. Inikori's "The Atlantic World Slave Economy and the Development Process in England, 1650–1850"
Robin Blackburn's "Enslavement and Industrialization"
Unit 3 Assessment
Industrial Revolutions
John Lord's "General State of Industry: Coal Mines and Iron Works"
Making the Modern World
: "Age of the Engineer, 1820–1880"
Doug Peacock's "Spinning Machines"
"Leeds Woolen Workers Petition, 1786"
"Letter from Leeds Cloth Merchants, 1791"
UK National Archives: "Luddites"
Primary Source Analysis I: Textile Mechanization
Making the Modern World
: "Textiles: From Domestic to Factory Production"
Andrew Ure's "The Philosophy of the Manufacturers"
Saint Anselm College: Joseph S. Spoerl's "A Brief History of Iron and Steel Production"
Making the Modern World
: "New Steel: The Bessemer Converter"
Chris Butler's "Railroads and Their Impact (c. 1825–1900)"
Mount Holyoke College: Robert Schwartz's "The Industrial Revolution and the Railroad System"
University of California at Berkeley: Brad DeLong's "The Iron-Hulled Ocean-Going Steamship, 1870–1914"
Northwestern University: Joel Mokyr's "Intellectual Property Rights, the Industrial Revolution, and the Beginnings of Modern Economic Growth”
Joan Brodsky Schur's "Eli Whitney's Patent for the Cotton Gin"
Simmons College: Katharine Dunn's "A Manufactured City: Lowell's Grand Experiment”
BBC: "Immigration and Emigration: Industrial Espionage"
Nineteenth-Century Cities
University of South Florida: "Density of Population, 1910"
Jackson J. Spielvogel's "The Industrialization of Europe by 1850"
Yale University: John Merriman's "Women's Work in the Industrial Revolution"
Jane Humphries' "Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution"
Donna Loftus' "The Rise of the Victorian Middle Class"
University of Tennessee at Martin: Glenn Everett's "The Reform Acts"
Marjie Bloy's "The Reform Act Crisis"
Marjie Bloy's "Terms of the 1832 Reform Act"
Steven Kreis' "The French Revolution and the Socialist Tradition: Early French Communists"
Steven Kreis' "The French Revolution and the Socialist Tradition: English Democratic Socialists"
Steven Kreis' "The Utopian Socialists: Charles Fourier"
Steven Kreis' "The Utopian Socialists: Robert Owen and Saint-Simon"
Ohio University: James Chastain's "Chartism"
Revolutionary Movements
Ohio University: Yvonne Crewbow's "French Economic Situation, 1847–1852"
Hanover Historical Texts Project: "Documents of the Revolution of 1848 in France"
Carl Schurz's "A Look Back at 1848, 1907"
Primary Source Analysis II: The Revolutions of 1848
Ohio University: Steven Kale's "Conservative Resistance to Revolution in France"
London School of Economics: Kenneth Pomeranz's "Skills, Rights and Resources in the East Asian Path to Development"
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Peter C. Perdue's "Rise and Fall of Canton Trade System"
Peter C. Perdue's "Review of The Great Divergence"
Columbia University: Kenneth Pomeranz and Bin Wong's "China and Europe: 1780–1937"
Wikipedia: "The Opium Wars"
Wake Forest University: Sarah Lyons Watts' "The Seclusion of Japan"
National Diet Library, Japan: "The Opening of Japan and Japan-Netherlands Relations"
Junichiro Suzuki's "A Resume of the History of Japanese Industries"
SOAS University of London: Simon Partner's "The Merchant's Tale"
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan: Kenichi Ohno's "Meiji: Key Goals of the New Government"
Wikipedia: "Scramble for Africa”
Yale University: John Merriman's "Imperialists and Boy Scouts"
Comparing Industrial Legacies: China, Japan, and Africa
University of Houston, Digital History: "The Rise of Big Business"
Henry Demarest Lloyd's "The Lords of Industry"
NetMBA: "Frederick Taylor and Scientific Management"
Frederick W. Taylor's "The Principles of Scientific Management, 1911"
Willamette University: Fred Thompson's "Fordism, Post-Fordism and the Flexible System of Production"
University of Houston, Digital History: "Industrialization and the Working Class"
Capital and Labor Relations, 1880–1920
Mass Politics and the Political Challenge from the Left
Kazuo Nimura's "The Formation of Japanese Labor Movement, 1868–1914"
Fusataro Takano's "Chinese Tailors' Strike in Shanghai"
John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Shawn Mackenzie's "A Brief History of Agriculture and Food Production: The Rise of Industrial Agriculture"
University of Houston, Digital History: "The Rise of Mass Communication"
George Mason University: Michael O'Malley's "Understanding Advertising"
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's "Division of the World among Capitalist Associations"
Making the Modern World
: "Age of the Mass, 1914–1939: World War One"
Henry J. Sage's "America and World War I"
PBS: "Commanding Heights"
Gene Smiley's "Great Depression"
Frank G. Steindl's "Economic Recovery in the Great Depression"
Crisis of Capitalism: The Great Depression
Wikipedia: "Causes of World War II"
Christopher J. Tassava's "The American Economy during World War II"
"The Conference at Bretton Woods"
George C. Marshall Foundation: "The Marshall Plan
PBS: "Commanding Heights"
Lewis Siegelbaum's "1917: Economic Apparatus"
Lewis Siegelbaum's "1921: The New Economic Policy"
Lewis Siegelbaum's "1924: Industrialization Debate"
Lewis Siegelbaum's "1929: Shock Workers"
Lewis Siegelbaum's "1929: Year of Great Change"
King's College: John Bowblis' "China in the 20th Century"
International Institute of Social History: "Sino-Soviet Cooperation"
Robert L. Worden, Andrea Matles Savana, and Ronald E. Dolan's "China: The Great Leap Forward, 1958–60"
International Institute of Social History: "Great Leap Forward"
Communist Alternatives to Industrialization
University of Groningen: Angus Maddison's "The Economic and Social Impact of Colonial Rule in India"
PBS: "Commanding Heights"
Wikipedia: "Import Substitution Industrialization"
Eric Solsten's "Germany: The Social Market Economy"
Eric Solsten's "Germany: The Economic Miracle and Beyond"
United States Country Study
: "The Postwar Economy: 1945–1960"
PBS: "Commanding Heights"
European Union: "1945–1959: A Peaceful Europe and the Beginnings of Cooperation"
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan: Kenichi Ohno's "Postwar Recovery 1945–1949"
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan: Kenichi Ohno's "Post High Growth 1950s–1960s"
Catherine R. Schenk's "Economic History of Hong Kong"
Myung Soo Cha's "The Economic History of Korea"
Michael Sarel's "Growth in East Asia: What We Can and What We Cannot Infer"
PBS: "Commanding Heights"
The Open University: "Development: Context and Practice"
BBC: "Timeline: World Trade Organization”
BBC: "Profile: World Trade Organization”
Unit 10 Assessment
HIST363 Study Guide
Course Feedback Survey
HIST363: Certificate Final Exam
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