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Age of Industry
Title
Age of Industry [electronic resource (video)] / BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2014], c2012
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (50 min.) : sd., col.
Local Notes
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Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on June 14, 2014.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
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Summary
This episode examines how Britain's Industrial Revolution created the modern world with inventors such as James Watt and George Stevenson improving the steam engines and railways. Trade with China was opened up, albeit illegally with the Chinese Opium Wars at the ports of Guangzhou. Following in Britain footsteps, in Russia social change was underway when Count Leo Tolstoy attempted to free his serfs at his Yasnaya Polyana Estate. However, they were holding out for a better offer, that of Tsar Alexander II's offer of an emancipation act. In North America we visit the cotton fields of Richmond, Virginia, to hear the story of the South. At a Samurai house in Japan, we hear the story of Samurai Saigo Takamori, the last Samurai, as a direct result of the new world trade. In Brussels, we learn how the British explorer Henry Morton Stanley mapped out the Congo River, only for King Leopold II of Belgium, in his quest to conquer as much as he could, caused genocide in the Congo, effects of which remain today. In Germany, we find out how their Foreign Secretary, Arthur Zimmermann brought America into the First World War.
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Films on demand.
Other formats
Originally produced: BBC Worldwide Ltd, 2012.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
Series
History of the World
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
9 & up.
Contents
Age of Industry Introduction (2:03)
Steam Engines (2:36)
Locomotion (4:02)
Tea Trade (2:20)
Canton Traders Shut Down (2:30)
Chinese Opium Wars (1:55)
Russian Serfs (1:24)
Leo Tolstoy's Revelation (2:57)
Serfs Became Revolutionaries (2:30)
America's Civil War (4:15)
Lincoln's Assassination (3:59)
Growth of American Industry (1:55)
Commodore Matthew Perry Demands Trade (2:34)
Last of the Samurai (4:13)
Belgium Expansion (4:42)
Scramble for Africa (3:31)
Grab for Land and Power (2:19)
Arthur Zimmermann Pushes America into WWI (3:35)
Arthur Zimmermann Foments the Bolshevik Revolution (4:21)
Credits: Age of Industry: History of the World (0:31)
Videorecording number
57505s Infobase
57512 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
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BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
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