| Description |
6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (viii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm). |
| Physical Medium |
DVD 4 3/4 in. |
| Description |
DVD digital optical |
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DVD DVD video NTSC |
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DVD video file DVD video rda |
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Filmed lectures |
| Series |
Great courses. History (Modern history) |
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Great courses (DVD). Modern history.
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| Note |
Title from disc surface. |
| System Details |
DVD. |
| Performer |
Lecturer: Dr. Patrick N. Allitt, Emory University. |
| Credits |
Producer/editor, Ines I. Perez ; directors, Jonathan Leven, Jim M. Allen, Chris DeRoche. |
| Note |
Course no. 8950. |
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Program contains 36 lectures; the length of each lecture is: ca. 30 minutes. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-273) in course guidebook. |
| 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 -- Disc 2: Coal mining: powering the revolution -- Iron: coking and puddling -- Wedgwood and the pottery business -- Building Britain's canals -- Steam technology and the first railways -- The railway revolution -- Disc 3: Isambard 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 -- Disc 4: American pioneers: Whitney and Lowell -- Steamboats and factories in America -- Why Europe started late -- Bismarck, De Lesseps, and Eiffel -- John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil -- Andrew Carnegie and American Steel -- 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 -- Disc 6: Expansion and the Great Depression -- Mass production wins World War II -- The information revolution -- Asian Tigers: the new industrialized nations -- Environmental paradoxes -- The benign transformation. |
| Summary |
Professor Allitt combines his skills as a rich storyteller and his expertise as a historian with the masterful scholarship and illuminating imagery from the Smithsonian to provide compelling insights about the period. |
| Language |
In English. Closed captioned for the deaf and hearing impaired. |
| Subject |
Industrial revolution.
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Economic history.
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Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
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Industrial revolution. (OCoLC)fst00971658
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| Genre/Form |
lectures. (CStmoGRI)aatgf300026673
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired. (OCoLC)fst01710450
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Educational films. (OCoLC)fst01726235
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Lectures. (OCoLC)fst01919935
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Nonfiction films. (OCoLC)fst01710269
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Lectures.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Nonfiction films.
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Educational films.
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| Added Author |
Allitt, Patrick, teacher, author.
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Perez, Ines I., producer.
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Leven, Jon, director.
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Allen, Jim M., director.
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DeRoche, Chris, director.
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Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
1629970964 |
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9781629970967 |
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9781490687759 |
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1490687750 |
| Music No. |
GV0141 Teaching Company |
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