Modern World History
Era Seven: An Age of Revolutions (1750–1914)
The Industrial Revolution: A Global Event
A Simulation for Grades 9–12
The Industrial Revolution, often regarded as a European export, was in fact a world-wide movement. This unit asks the question: “How did industrialization affect the lives of individuals, both high and low, around the world?” It includes exciting case studies of 78 individuals from 13 countries whose lives the Industrial Revolution changed, each drawn from both print and secondary sources and including biographies of six individuals of different social classes and occupations who lived during the 1750–1914 era. The materials serve either as individual lessons or as full units involving role playing, simulation, or research projects. The culminating lesson is a “1913 International Conference” that focuses on global issues related to industrialism and imperialism. 158 p. Grades 9–12
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[NH153-LA6] $16.95 Reproducible
Human Rights in the Making:
The French and Haitian Revolutions
Ideas about rights were at the core of the French and Haitian revolutions in the late eighteenth century. The rights at issue ranged widely: protection against arbitrary imprisonment, equality of taxation, personal freedom for slaves, voting rights for free mulattoes and Jews, and the right of divorce and property ownership for married women. Based on primary source documents and visuals, this unit helps students examine differences and similarities in the approaches to winning rights in the French and Haitian revolutions. Students will analyze how and with what success people in two societies whose historical contexts were very different both demanded and resisted broadening of civil and human rights and will compare human rights concerns in the eighteenth century with those of today.
64 p. Grades 9 –12
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[NH182-LA6] $16.95 Reproducible
Images of the Orient:
Nineteenth-Century European Travelers to Muslim Lands
Co-Published with the Council for Islamic Education
This unit focuses on the growing European dominance during the 19th century in Muslim regions from West Africa to South and Central Asia. Lessons focus on the new vistas opened up for Europeans to travel, the types of travel in which they engaged, and their goals and purposes. The lessons also show how the travelers’ personal contact with the “Orient” was communicated to Europeans back home in different ways. Drawing upon memoirs, lectures, displays of indigenous artwork, and exhibitions of museum artifacts, illustrations in the popular press, paintings, photographs, poetry, and stories, classroom activities stimulate analysis, the lessons show how the cultural reflections of Europeans traveling in the Orient influenced the formation of a particular view of the Muslim East. 86 p. Grades 9–12
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[NH165-LA6] $16.95 Reproducible
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