The industrial revolution in world history

Author(s)

• Stearns, Peter N.

Bibliographic Information

The industrial revolution in world history

Peter N. Stearns

（Essays in world history）

Westview Press, c1993

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-244) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

ISBN 9780813385969

Description

Offers a world historical approach, looking at the international factors that touched off the Industrial Revolution and at its global impact. Beginning with an examination of industrialization in the West, the author goes on to explore later cases - including Russia, Japan and the United States.

Table of Contents

• Defining the Industrial Revolution
• THE FIRST PHASE OF THE INDUSTRIAL -1880: Britain's Revolution: New Processes and Economic REVOLUTION, 1760 Transformation
• New Causes: Why Did the Industrial Revolution Happen, and Why in Eighteenth-Century Britain?
• The Industrial Revolution in Western Society
• The Social Impact of the Industrial Revolution
• The Industrial Revolution Outside the West
• THE SECOND PHASE OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: THE NEW INTERNATIONAL CAST: The Industrial Revolution Changes Stripes, 1880-1950
• The Industrial Revolution in Russia
• The Industrial Revolution in Japan
• New Developments in Western Societies: Redefinitions of the Industrial Economy
• The Industrial Revolution in International Context, 1880-1950
• THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF THE WORLD, 1950s-1990s: The Industrial Revolution in the Past Half Century
• New Industrial Revolutions
• A Post-industrial Revolution?
• The Less Industrial World: Evolution and Exploitation
• International Industry.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780813385976

Description

0813334578 Millennium Iii, Century Xxi : a Retrospective on the Future 0813334810 the Industrial Revolution in World History : Second Edition

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Details

• NCID: BA21246556
• ISBN:
  • 0813385962
  • 0813385970
• LCCN: 93018719
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Boulder, Colo.
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 254 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HD2321
  • DC20 : 338.09
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Industry -- History
  • LCSH : Economic history
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA21246771