Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity

Lecture 42: Spread of the Industrial Revolution to 1900

Christian, Maps of Time, chap. 13.

Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World.

Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts.

Headrick, “Technological Change.”

1. What were the main achievements of the ¿ rst four “waves” of
   global industrialization?


2. Why was global industrialization so damaging to many societies outside
   the new Atlantic hub zone?

Essential Reading

Supplementary Reading

Questions to Consider