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    From Spinning Wheels to Steam and Steel: Understanding the Age of Industrialization
    From Spinning Wheels to Steam and Steel: Understanding the Age of Industrialization
    From Spinning Wheels to Steam and Steel: Understanding the Age of Industrialization
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    From Spinning Wheels to Steam and Steel: Understanding the Age of Industrialization

    Written by Jennifer Popiel

    Narrated by Jennifer Popiel

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    In the Age of Industrialization, economics, society, politics, and culture collided. In particular, the Industrial Revolution provided the underpinnings of Europe's societal transformations and decisively shaped the century, including changes in mass culture and the growth of democratic challenges to existing political institutions. This series of lectures explores specific technologies, most of which we take for granted today, to offer a general picture of the economic and social development of Western nations from 1760 to 1900.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateOct 31, 2014
    ISBN9781470381615
    From Spinning Wheels to Steam and Steel: Understanding the Age of Industrialization

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      I checked out From Spinning Wheels to Steam and Steel: Understanding the Age of Industrialization by Professor Jennifer J. Popiel because it sounded interesting. It was. Professor Popiel's enthusiasm for her subject shows in her voice, which makes for pleasant listening.The titles for the eight lessons in this course are:1. The Turnip: A Revolution in Agriculture2. The Spinning Jenny: Textiles, Homes, and Industrialization3. The Steam Engine: Mechanization, Government, and the Factory System.4. The Savings Bank: Investment, Education, and the Worker5. The City Street: Living and Moving in the New Urban World6. Pasteurized Milk: Eating and Drinking in the Modern City7. Baseball: Leisure and Sport in the Modern Life8. The Bicycle: Gender, Mobility, and Modern TechnologySome of the things in here I'd learned in school decades ago, but it was nice to have my memory refreshed. It was also nice to see some ways that changes in one area led to changes elsewhere. I'd never thought about what pre-professional baseball meant to New York City or how the bicycle helped emancipate women.I definitely recommend listening to these lessons whether one needs the course for college or just wants to learn.