HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: World Wide Web, Interchangeable Parts, Deindustrialization
6 Dec 2020
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1820 "70) centered on iron, coal, and steam engines: the third cluster (c. a. 1850 1920) featured coal and steel, railways and telegraphs, chemicals and electricity and giant firms that took advantage of economies of scale and operated internationally; for the first time, most of the innovations came not in. In 1700, the world"s only great exporter of woven textiles was india; but by 1860, Imperialism and self-strengthening: european (especially british) imperialism became cheap and easy, and therefore more inviting; factories churned out new, more deadly weapons (mass production first emerged in the arms industry) Central asia that could grow cotton, and an elite versed in european languages and accustomed to borrowing foreign ideas; it also had, like the us, wide open spaces that railroads could unite; russian industrialization emphasized railroad construction. In the 1700s, japan was colonizing territorially the island of hokkaido, useful for its forests and fish, but not for raw materials for industrialization; but to its good fortune,
