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Article: The Industrial Revolution in World History.(Brief Article)
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- March 22, 1995
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This book describes the global processes of the industrial revolution. According to Peter Stearns, the industrial revolution is comparable to the Neolithic agricultural revolution in that it fundamentally reordered social and economic institutions, human relationships, and value systems. Stearns' periodization is traditional. He stresses that the keys to understanding each period are its inanimate sources of energy for production, technology of production, and organization of production. He is conscious that each civilization applied principles differently, which resulted in unique and varied results that enriched the global transformation from agrarian to industrial.
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