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Extensive excerpt from a book on the development of the textile industry in the U.S., including New England and Mississippi. Author: Narvell Strickland.
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A History of Cotton Mills and the Industrial Revolution I study and ponder history, I often recall the old adage that if we want to understand ourselves, we must study the history of our ancestry Today, it is universally recognized that such a study is essential if we hope...A comprehensive entry on the Industrial Revolution frpom the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html
The full text of these lectures by Arnold Toynbee in 1884.
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster....a/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/toynbee/indrev
Professor Gerhard Rempel, Department of History, Western New England College introduces the Industrial Revolution.
http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grem.../wc2/lectures/industrialrev.html
A slideshow presentation on the Industrial Revolution, including a look at inventions, labor laws, and socialism.
http://members.tripod.com/xu_chen/indusrevolt/
Suggests that Great Britain and America were chiefly responsible for the Industrial Revolution.
http://www.darex.com/indurevo.htm
A brief history of what happened during this time period.
http://www.bergen.org/technology/indust.html
An overview of the industrial revolution in textiles, profiling workers and reformers of 18th century Britain, related events in labor history, and describing modes of transportation and living.
http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/
A series of illustrated historical essays about the family who played a major role in the history and economy of eighteenth century Britain, France and America.
http://www.iron.oakengates.com/
Features a range of historical information and data including research papers, images, and extracts from the Illustrated London News.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/ind_rev/index.html
A history project done by a secondary student in Hong Kong.
http://www.geocities.com/turning_world
BBC/Open University site to accompany the series 'What The Industrial Rveolution Did For Us', exploring the advances in science and engineering and how their effects are still felt today.
http://www.open2.net/industrialrevolution/
Tells the story of the rapid social and economic changes that occurred as Blackburn and Darwen began to expand with the growth of the British textile industry.
http://www.cottontown.org/