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For the Week of 11/19/08 |
Assignment 12
Tomas
Munita for The New York Times
Workers
collect guano on Isla Gua–ape off Peru, which conserves the resource to
prevent
depletion. Guano's status as an organic fertilizer has increased demand.
Gunpowder to Fertilizer
and
Working Conditions in an Industrialized World
Look Over Chapter 15 in McClellan and
Dorn (Chapter 14 in old editions).
Closely read a few parts that interest you.
Read this article from the New York
Times: Romero-NYT-GuanoPeru-428KB.pdf
4pp
Look over Chapter 6 in Bown, just to get
an idea of what it was about.
ThenÉ
Read Chapters 7 and 8. 40pp
Read Leigh pp. 74-86 from Chapter 3:
Leigh-Ch3-Worlds_Greatest-5.4MB.pdf
Malthus
is very important in setting the stage for Darwin.
Read this really short article
by Belluz and compare it to Malthus: Belluz-Human_Evolution_Is_Over.htm. What do you think?
Everybody read
Andrew Ure: The
Philosophy of the Manufacturers, 1835
and
Friederich Engels:
Industrial Manchester, 1844
Then choose either Set 1 or Set 2:
Set 1:
A. ChildLabor_And_FactoryGirl-968KB.pdf
B. Observations on the
Loss of Woollen Spinning, 1794
Set 2:
A. Women Miners in
the English Coal Pits
B. The Life of the
Industrial Worker in Ninteenth-Century England
Slum housing in Garngad (Ireland), photographed in 1925.
A heavy cloud of polluted air hangs over the area, produced by the
many heavy industrial works in the area,
such as the St Rollox Chemical Works and the Tharsis Sulphur &
Copper Works.
Manchester was also known as ÒCottonopolisÓ – ca. 1840
Write: Write a 1.5 page single-spaced essay or equivalent. Remember, all essays
should have a list of sources. Any
time you refer to a source I want a page number (or similar designation for its
location within a text). I want to
be able to easily find any reference you make to any source what-so-ever. This is standard scholarly
practice. Some of you are
consistently getting marked down for not making these references.
Suggestions for the essay:
Perhaps
you could write a 3-way dialogue between Ure and Engles and a 10-year-old
factory worker or Upton Sinclair (If you happen to have read the Jungle in another class) or an English
woman miner or a Factory Girl,É etc.
Get creative. These people
might have some rather strong feelings about this topic. Feel free to
illustrate it with your conceptions of the labor and the machines and the
technology. Feel free to find
images of the machines on the web.
Or perhaps you could write a dialogue between somebody then and somebody
now, and they could compare notes on working conditions or harassment. You could also write on chemistry or
electromagnetic theory in the early days or the Galvani-Volta experiments and
batteriesÉ etc.
Loosen up! Refer to the readings I have assigned
first, then if you want to read other stuff, feel free. I will reward those who
go the extra mile.
Optional:
Google is offering another free
resource. It is not fully up yet,
but this article gives a nice preview.
Google-Rome
Reconstruction Information
Back to Syllabus [HoST Fall 2008]
Me – hostf08@mifami.org
The majority of my
lecture notes for this class have already been posted in previous pages.
You are on your own
with some of the material here.
Here is a before and after
comparison of the borders between Chile, Bolivia, and Peru.
Notice how Chile (light blue)
expanded, and Bolivia and Peru shrank.
Nitrate-Borders-1879-84-204KB.pdf
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