Adam Smith -
The Wealth of Nations
Advantages and Disadvantages of the Open Field System (interactive web chart)
The African American - A Journey from Slavery to Freedom
British Conquest of India
British East India Company
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
"Century of the Furnace--Episode 8" (Millennium series)
Colonial Latin America
Dutch East India Company
Dutch East India Company - Rijksmuseum
Dutch Portuguese Colonial History
Dutch West India Company
Eighteenth Resources on the Net
The Emancipation of British Women: 1750-1920 (Spartacus)
An Empire of Spices
"Enfranchising Women: The Politics of Women's Suffrage in Europe 1789-1945" - tutorial with documents and other resources
Exhibit on the Culture of Chocolate
Exhibit on the Culture of Tobacco
The First Industrial Revolution - up to 1840
(BBC)
French East India Company
Globalization Since the Fourteenth Century
The Growth of the Slave Trade in North America
History of England: Age of Empire
Immanuel Wallerstein's World System Theory
The Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution Reference
The Industrial Revolution- Technology and Social Effects
Inventions of the Industrial Revolution (BBC)
John Law and the Mississippi Bubble
Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England - Arnold Toynbee (1884)
The Luddites: 1811-1812 (Spartacus Site)
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"African Diaspora: Slave Routes Throughout the World"
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"English Common Lands Enclosed by Acts of Parliament: 1700-1850"
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"Industrial England: Early 19c"
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"The Seven Years' War"
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"Triangle Trade"
Mercantilism - an outline (by R. Larry Reynolds (Boise State U.)
Mercantilism, the Physiocrats, and Adam Smith
The Mercantilists
Modern India -- 1757 AD to 1947 AD (Itihaas)
NM's Creative Impulse:
The Development of Western Civilization - The Industrial Revolution (mucho links)
The Physiocrats - an outline (Prof. Reynolds - Boise State U.)
Seven Years War
The Slave Trade
"The Social Aspects of Industrialization" - tutorial with documents and other resources
To Market to Market: A Study of the Colonial Economy from 1600 to 1750
How to read a primary source document
Why Study History Through Primary Sources
1664:
Thomas Mun - England's Treasure by Foreign Trade
1664:
Jean Baptiste Colbert - Memorandum on Trade
1668:
Josiah Child - Brief Observations Concerning Trade and Interest of Money
1670-1675:
Descriptions of the First English Coffee Houses
1724:
Daniel Defoe - The Complete English Tradesman
1732:
A Description of New Guinea" - John Barbot
1743:
A Letter from Thomas Hancock
1752:
David Hume - Of Money
1755:
Jean Jacques Rousseau - A Discourse on Political Economy
1761:
Governor Glen - The Role of the Indians in the Rivalry Between France, Spain, and England
1767:
Spinning Jenny - James Hargraves
1772:
Samuel Adams - The Rights of the Colonists
1775:
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms
1775:
John Wesley - Thoughts Upon Slavery
1776:
Thomas Paine
-
Common Sense
1776:
The Wealth of Nations
- Adam Smith
1778:
First Watt engine (animated)
1781-1782:
King George III - letter on loss of the American colonies
1783:
The Paris Peace Treaty of 1783
1786:
Leeds Woolen Workers Petition
1787:
Jeremy Bentham - Defence of Usury
1788:
A Slave Trade Journal - Dr. Alexander Falconbridge
1791:
Letter from Leeds Cloth Merchants
1793:
A Slave's Accounting
1794:
Observations on the Loss of Woollen Spinning
1795:
Manchester Becomes a Thriving Industrial City - John Aikin
1798:
An Essay on the Principle of Population
- Thomas Malthus
19c:
Images of the Industrial Revolution in England
19c:
Table Showing the Comparative Weight of Factory & Non-Factory English Children
1800:
Petition for Poor Relief
1802:
The Health and Morals of Apprentices Act
1806:
House of Commons Select Committee on The Woollen Industry
1807:
Child Labor in Cotton Factories - Robert Southey,
Letters from England
1812:
A
Luddite attack
on a Yorkshire mill
1812:
Luddite Oath
1813-49:
Various Descriptions of Workhouse Children, England
1814:
The English Corn Laws
1816:
Evidence of James Pattison (on
the state of health and morals of children employed in manufactories)
1818:
Observations on the Effects of the Manufacturing System - Robert Owen
1819:
Opposition to the Chimney Sweepers' Regulation Bill
1819:
The Six Acts
1823:
"The Steam Loom" - Richard Guest
1830s?:
Power Loom - weaving in England