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.

About the Author

Peter N. Stearns is provost and professor of history at George Mason University. He is the editor of the Journal of Social History and the author of many books, including World Civilizations: The Global Experience and World History in Brief: Major Patterns of Change and Continuity .