32411
Seminar
SoSe 16: Turnpikes, Steamboats, and Railroads: The Transportation Revolution of the 19th Century
Maria-Michaela Hampf
Comments
This class deals with Industrialization, Transport and Communication - intricately connected categories in the 19th century United States. Industrialization, well under way in the 1820s, needed a transport revolution in order to open markets and obtain raw materials. Until the 1850s, turnpikes handled the largest share and most valuable part of regional commerce, despite the overbuilt canal network and early railroads. Only after 1850s, the canal system grew in importance, as did the early railway system, which received its most important thrust during and after the Civil War. Communication was essential to both industrialization and the transport system. Correspondence, still painfully slow in 1800, was uncoupled from human carriers of news and information through the invention and implementation of the electric telegraph, which revolutionized not only mass media, but also trade and international financial markets. close
13 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Mon, 2016-04-18 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2016-04-25 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2016-05-02 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2016-05-09 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2016-05-23 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2016-05-30 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2016-06-06 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2016-06-13 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2016-06-20 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2016-06-27 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2016-07-04 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2016-07-11 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2016-07-18 12:00 - 14:00