Empire of Cotton – Part Two
January 24, 2022 British cotton trade with India The Great Game: contested trade routes through Afghanistan Mercantilism: Zero-Sum Economics The Industrious Rev...
Category: Class Notes
Empire of Cotton – Part Three
January 31, 2022 Canals History Importance for textile factories Leeds/Liverpool canal & Bingley locks Great Transformations that changed the way people liv...
American Revolution Timeline
DATE EVENT 1534 New France Founded 1607 Colony of Virginia founded at Jamestown 1756-1763 Seven Years’ War – Treaty of Paris 1747 George Croghan’s trading post ...
Books Featured in British Class Two
Patrick Griffin – American Leviathan In class one we saw that the proximal cause of the Seven Years’ War was a dispute between the French and British over the O...
Books Featured in British Class One
Kevin Phillips – 1775: a Good Year for Revolution Phillips says he wrote this book to counter the widespread belief that the revolution was inevitable; a view s...
Bibliography for The British are Coming
Last First Title Date Publisher Ackerman Bruce We the People: Foundations 1991 Harvard Univ. Press Ackroyd Peter Revolution: The History of England from 1688 to...
Empire of Cotton 2020 -Class One
Beginning about 200 years ago a profound shift took place in the way European economic life was organized. This is often termed the Industrial Revolution, but i...
Empire of Cotton 2020 – Class Two
Class two described in detail the difficult and time-consuming methods for making thread and weaving it into fabrics that had been practiced for thousands of ye...
Empire of Cotton 2020 – Class Three
________ Class three described the construction of the first cotton textile factory, Quarry Mill Bank, in Manchester by Samuel Gregg in 1784. In present-day Ame...
Empire of Cotton 2020 -Class Four
Class four described how workers were recruited to factories. The government set up workhouses where people were assigned tasks so difficult, demeaning, and bru...