[PDF] The Encyclopedia Of The Industrial Revolution In World History eBook

Author : Kenneth E. Hendrickson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 1145 pages
File Size : 27,84 MB
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0810888882

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As editor Kenneth E. Hendrickson, III, notes in his introduction: “Since the end of the nineteenth-century, industrialization has become a global phenomenon. After the relative completion of the advanced industrial economies of the West after 1945, patterns of rapid economic change invaded societies beyond western Europe, North America, the Commonwealth, and Japan.” In The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History contributors survey the Industrial Revolution as a world historical phenomenon rather than through the traditional lens of a development largely restricted to Western society. The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History is a three-volume work of over 1,000 entries on the rise and spread of the Industrial Revolution across the world. Entries comprise accessible but scholarly explorations of topics from the “aerospace industry” to “zaibatsu.” Contributor articles not only address topics of technology and technical innovation but emphasize the individual human and social experience of industrialization. Entries include generous selections of biographical figures and human communities, with articles on entrepreneurs, working men and women, families, and organizations. They also cover legal developments, disasters, and the environmental impact of the Industrial Revolution. Each entry also includes cross-references and a brief list of suggested readings to alert readers to more detailed information. The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History includes over 300 illustrations, as well as artfully selected, extended quotations from key primary sources, from Thomas Malthus’ “Essay on the Principal of Population” to Arthur Young’s look at Birmingham, England in 1791. This work is the perfect reference work for anyone conducting research in the areas of technology, business, economics, and history on a world historical scale.

Author : Peter N Stearns
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 31,60 MB
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0813347300

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The industrial revolution was the single most important development in human history over the past three centuries, and it continues to shape the contemporary world. With new methods and organizations for producing goods, industrialization altered where people live, how they play, and even how they define political issues. By exploring the ways the industrial revolution reshaped world history, this book offers a unique look into the international factors that started the industrial revolution and its global spread and impact. In the fourth edition, noted historian Peter N. Stearns continues his global analysis of the industrial revolution with new discussions of industrialization outside of the West, including the study of India, the Middle East, and China. In addition, an expanded conclusion contains an examination of the changing contexts of industrialization. The Industrial Revolution in World History is essential for students of world history and economics, as well as for those seeking to know more about the global implications of what is arguably the defining socioeconomic event of modern times.

Author : Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 34,93 MB
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 100022712X

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Now in its fifth edition, this book explores the ways in which the industrial revolution reshaped world history, covering the international factors that helped launch the industrial revolution, its global spread and its impact from the end of the eighteenth century to the present day. The single most important development in human history over the past three centuries, the industrial revolution continues to shape the contemporary world. Revised and brought into the present, this fifth edition of Peter N. Stearns’ The Industrial Revolution in World History extends his global analysis of the industrial revolution. Looking beyond the West, the book considers India, the Middle East and China and now includes more on key Latin American economies and Africa as well as the heightened tensions, since 2008, about the economic aspects of globalization and the decline of manufacturing in the West. This edition also features a new chapter on key historiographical debates, updated suggestions for further reading and boxed debate features that encourage the reader to consider diversity and different viewpoints in their own analysis, and pays increased attention to the environmental impacts. Illustrating the contemporary relevance of the industrial revolution's history, this is essential reading for students of world history and economics, as well as for those seeking to know more about the global implications of what is arguably the defining socioeconomic event of modern times.

Author : James Wolfe
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 32,4 MB
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1680480286

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The Industrial Revolution has had the most far-reaching and transformative effects of any era in the planet's history. After detailing life and technology in Europe prior to the revolution, this volume presents the changes that led to the revolution, important inventions and innovations, societal and economic consequences, and the Second Industrial Revolution in the United States. Readers will learn how inventions we take for granted today, such as the telephone, steam engine, and railroad, transformed our world and started us on the path to globalization.

Author : James S. Olson
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 37,12 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Contains over two hundred alphabetically arranged articles that provide information about key individuals, technologies, inventions, court cases, companies, political institutions, economic events, and legislation during the Industrial Revolution in the U.S. from 1750 to 1920.

Author : Carlo M. Cipolla
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,47 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134877498

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First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Christine Rider
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 44,78 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Economic history
ISBN : 9780313335020

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Presents an introduction to the Industrial Revolution, with alphabetically arranged entries covering such topics as urbanization, child labor, transportation, public health, labor, and inventions.

Author : Christine Rider
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 23,90 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Economic history
ISBN : 9780313335037

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The discoveries and developments underlaying much current technology are described in this encyclopedia covering the major people, events, and inventions of the eighteenth-century Industrial Revolution.