- Read Rudyard Kipling’s “The White Man’s Burden” (1899).
- What cultural assumptions does Kipling’s poem convey concerning Europeans and peoples of other cultures?
- Consider your reading of Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species(Module Six).
- In what ways could Darwin’s theory be used to justify, however perversely, the sentiments expressed in “The White Man’s Burden”?
- What might be the negative consequences of the application of Darwin’s theories to social settings?
- The “Second” Industrial Revolution ushered in the modern age of mass production. View A Biography of America, Episode Fourteen, “Industrial Supremacy” [26:39].
- What is vertical integration?
- What were the defining characteristics of industrial production during this period? Explain those characterisitics.
- In what way(s) was steel the “wonder material” of the new industrial age?
- Identify at least three ways in which cheap, readily-available steel changed Western society.
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