history discussion 9

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Please read the course materials for the week and then participate in this discussion by answering ONE of the following questions. Your response should be a minimum of 250 words

  • (1) How did the Industrial Revolution transform people’s daily lives? Be sure to include sanitation and labor.
  • (2) How do Burke and Hare illustrate the changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution?
  • (3) The following quote from Jaques Barzun’s From Dawn to Decadence addresses the railroad. Discuss the impact of the railroad on daily lives or on the Industrial Revolution. In what ways did locomotion create a technological transformation for humanity as a whole – at least in the areas where it existed?
    • “At first, machinery affected only those who organized its use and the men and women who worked in factories. But by 1830 a different type of machine came into being that changed the life and the minds of all peoples. The memory of it is nearly gone, but it was the completest change in human experience since the nomadic tribes became rooted in one spot to grow grain and raise cattle; it was in effect a reversal of that settling down. Locomotion by the force of steam, the railroad, uprooted mankind and made of it individual nomads again.” (Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life (New York: HarperCollins, 2000), 539)
  • Read “Dirt, Waste and Revulsion: How Cultures Cope with Leftovers and Mess” (experts discuss and contextualize Dirt: The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life).
  • Read “Lighting the Industrial Revolution” by Peter Lewis.
  • Read “History of Railways in Britain.”
  • View the charts from “Spread of Railways in [the] 19th Century.”
  • Read up to “Mapmaking and Printing” of History of Railroads and Maps.
  • Read “The British Industrial Revolution“
  • Read “The Worlds of Burke and Hare” by Lisa Rosner.
  • Read “Henry L. Gantt and Frederick Taylor: The Pioneers of Scientific Management” by Peter B. Darmody.
 
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