Industrial and Social History Series
By KATHARINE ELIZABETH DOPP, Ph. D.Lecturer in Education in the Extension Division of the University of Chicago. Author of “The Place of Industries in Elementary Education.”
WHAT THE BOOKS ARE
Book I.THE TREE-DWELLERS.The Age of Fear.
Illustrated with a map, 15 full-page and 46 text drawings in half-tone by Howard V. Brown. Cloth, square 12mo, 158 pages; 45 cents. For the primary grades.
THIS volume makes clear to the child how people lived before they had fire, how and why they conquered it, and the changes wrought in society by its use. The simple activities of gathering food, of weaving, building, taming fire, making use of stones for tools and weapons, wearing trophies, and securing coöperative action by means of rhythmic dances, are here shown to be the simple forms of processes which still minister to our daily needs.
Book II.THE EARLY CAVE-MEN.The Age of Combat.
Illustrated with a map, 17 full-page and 68 text drawings in half-tone by Howard V. Brown. Cloth, square 12mo, 183 pages; 45 cents. For the primary grades.
In this volume the child is helped to realize that it is necessary not only to know how to use fire, but to know how to make it. Protection from the cold winters, which characterize the age described, is sought first in caves; but fire is a necessity in defending the caves. The serious condition to which the cave-men are reduced by the loss of fire during a flood is shown to be the motive which prompts them to hold a council; to send men to the fire country; to make improvements in clothing, in devices for carrying, and in tools and weapons; and, finally, to the discovery of how to make fire.
Book III.THE LATER CAVE-MEN.The Age of the Chase.
Illustrated with 27 full-page and 87 text drawings in half-tone by Howard V. Brown. Cloth, square 12mo, 197 pages; 45 cents. For the intermediate grades.
Here is portrayed the influence of man’s presence upon wild animals. Man’s fear, which with the conquest of fire gave way to courage, has resulted in his mastery of many mechanical appliances and in the development of social coöperation, which so increases his power as to make him an object of fear to the wild animals. Since the wild animals now try to escape from man’s presence, there is a greater demand made upon man’s ingenuity than ever before in supplying his daily food. The way in which man’s cunning finds expression in traps, pitfalls, and in throwing devices, and finally in a remarkable manifestation of art, is made evident in these pages.
Book IV.THE EARLY SEA PEOPLE.First Steps in the Conquest of the Waters.
Illustrated with 21 full-page and 110 text drawings in half-tone by Howard V. Brown and Kyohei Inukai. Cloth, square 12mo, 224 pages; 50 cents. For the intermediate grades.
The life of fishing people upon the seashore presents a pleasing contrast to the life of the hunters on the wooded hills depicted in the previous volumes. The resources of the natural environment; the early steps in the evolution of the various modes of catching fish, of manufacturing fishing tackle, boats, and other necessary appliances; the invention of devices for capturing birds; the domestication of the dog and the consequent changes in methods of hunting; and the social coöperation involved in manufacturing and in expeditions on the deep seas, are subjects included in this volume.
Other volumes, dealing with the early development of pastoral and agricultural life, the age of metals, travel, trade, and transportation, will follow.
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Transcriber’s Note: Obvious punctuation errors repaired. In the suggestions for teachers, there is no section for Lesson X. BothThe Tree DwellersandThe Later Cave-Menare available on Project Gutenberg.