Documents Available to Analyze

You may propose your own pair of documents to analyze if none of these below really catch your interest. You must, however, have the professor’s approval before submitting such an analysis.

Industrial Revolution

Carlyle, “The Mechanical Age”: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/carlyle-times.html
Engels, “Industrial Manchester”: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1844engels.html

Pictorial Representations of the Age

Joseph Turner: “The Fighting ‘Téméraire’ tugged to her last Berth to be broken up”
Gustave Caillebotte: “Paris Street”

Changing Views of History

Hegel: Excerpts from The Philosophical History of the World, at http://www.lancs.ac.uk/ug/busht/philosophy/hegelhistory.html#1
(Note in this document that you’re getting many small bullets of Hegel’s own texts; also, the material in bold is the editor’s (not Hegel’s!) comments.)
Marx: “Scientific Socialism”, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/marx-summary.html

Imperialism

Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden” at: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Kipling.html
Morel, “The Black Man’s Burden” at: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1903blackburden.html

Social Conditions

Jack London, “People of the Abyss”
Thorstein Veblen, “Theory of the Leisure Class,” at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1899veblen.html