Peter N Stearns
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This fifth edition, 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. Looking beyond the West, the book considers India, the Middle East and China, Latin American economies and Africa, and the heightened tensions since 2008, about the economic aspects...