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  • World History: The Early Modern Period
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    • The Atlantic World in the 1600s
    • Global Trade: Europe, the Middle East and Asia
    • The Impact of Global Trade
    • Changing Political Systems and Colonial Conflicts
    • Absolutist Political Systems
    • Reformation and Counter-reformation in Europe
    • The Spread of Islam in Africa, the Middle East and Asia
    • The Enlightenment
    • Political Revolutions
    • Scientific and Industrial Revolutions

Scientific and Industrial Revolutions

1. Overview
2. The Scientific Revolution in Europe
3. Origins of the Scientific Revolution
4. The social impact of the Scientific Revolution
5. The political impact of the Scientific Revolution
6. The Industrial Revolution
7. The origins of the Industrial Revolution
8. The impact of the Industrial Revolution in Europe
9. ‘The Philosophy of Manufacturers’
10. The global impact of the Industrial Revolution
11. Review

The global impact of the Industrial Revolution

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Reading

Read the below articles. As you do so, consider the following questions:

  • When and how did the Industrial Revolution impact on Russia and Japan?
  • How were industrialization and colonization intertwined?

‘Peter Stearns, Michael Ada and Stuart Schwartz, ‘Russia And Japan – Industrialization Outside The West’, World History International, 1992.

Stuart Schwartz, ‘Industrialization And Western Global Hegemony: Industrialization And Imperialism’, World History International, 1992.

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