Please read the chapter on the Industrial Revolution (chapter 17 in the third edition).
Respond to 3 of the sidebar or big picture questions from that chapter. Each response should be approximately 200 words and must show evidence of having personally read the chapter. Post your 3 answers to your blog.
Due: Tuesday, March 24
After the due date, go back and make thoughtful comments on at least 2 other students' blog posts.
For your convenience, the sidebar and big picture questions from this chapter are copied below. Remember, you only have to respond to three of them!
1) In what ways did the Industrial Revolution mark a sharp break with the past? In what ways did it continue earlier patterns?
2) In what respects did the roots of the Industrial Revolution lie within Europe? In what ways did that transformation have global roots?
3) What was distinctive about Britain that may help explain its status as the breakthrough point of the Industrial Revolution?
4) How did the Industrial Revolution transform British society?
5) How did Britain's middle classes change during the 19th century?
6) How did Karl Marx understand the Industrial Revolution? In what ways did his ideas have an impact in the industrializing world of the 19th century?
7) What were the differences between industrialization in the United States and that in Russia?
8) What factors contributed to the making of a revolutionary situation in Russia by the beginning of the 20th century?
9) What was common to industrialization everywhere, and in what ways did it vary from place to place?
10) In what ways was Latin America linked to the global economy of the 19th century, and what was the impact of these links?
11) Did Latin America follow or diverge from the historical path of Europe during the 19th century?
12) What did humankind gain from the Industrial Revolution, and what did it lose?
13) In what ways might the Industrial Revolution be understood as a global rather than simply a European phenomenon?
14) How might you situate the Industrial Revolution in the long history of humankind? How do you think the material covered in this chapter will be viewed 50, 100 or 200 years into the future?
15) How did the Industrial Revolution interact with the Scientific Revolution and the French Revolution to generate Europe's modern transformation?
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