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The industrial revolution in world history / Peter N. Stearns.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stearns, Peter N.
- Series:
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial revolution.
- Economic history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 326 p. ) ill., maps ;
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Introduction : Defining the Industrial Revolution
- pt. 1. The first phase, 1760-1880 : western primacy, global contexts, and global results. Britain's revolution : new processes and economic transformation
- New causes : why did the Industrial Revolution happen, and why did it happen in eighteenth-century Britain?
- The Industrial Revolution in western society
- The social impact of the Industrial Revolution
- The Industrial Revolution outside the West
- pt. 2. The second phase, 1880-1950 : the new international cast. The Industrial Revolution changes stripes
- 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
- pt. 3. The third phase, 1950s-2000s : the industrialization of the world. The Industrial Revolution in the past half century
- Industrial revolutions and industrial sectors
- The new spectrum in the less industrial world : evolution and exploitation
- A Postindustrial Revolution?
- Global industry and the environment
- Globalization and the complexities of industrial trends
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-312) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8133-4360-7
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb31231 hdl
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