POLS 3560 Lecture Notes - Sub-Saharan Africa, Gross Domestic Product, Ananya (Actress)
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Pols 3560 fall/winter 2011/2012 ananya mukherjee-reed. Lecture 6 development: mainstream and critical perspectives oct 25. The industrial revolution made some countries richer and others poorer; or more accurately, some countries made an industrial revolution and became rich; and others did not and stayed poor. The consequence of these advances was a growing gap between modern industrial countries and laggards, between rich and poor. In europe in 1750, the difference between western europe (excluding britain) and eastern in income per head was perhaps 15%; in 1800, little more than 20%. The same polarization, only much sharper, took place between europe and those countries that later came to be defined as a third world in part because modern factory industries swallowed their old-fashioned rivals, at home and abroad. In the eighteenth century, a series of inventions transformed the manufacture of cotton in england and gave rise to a new mode or production the factory system.