The Modern Revolution

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This paper examines the years known as the Modern Revolution, which consisted of global and unprecedented exchanges of ideas, goods and people. The years between 1850 and 1914 were described as autocatalytic or a condition wherein one kind of change evolved on its own and produced other kinds of changes. The paper gives examples of many of these changes, within historical, political and economic spheres. Major conflicts and their leaders are highlighted.

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"Great Britain was the engine of world economic growth during the Industrial Revolution period between 1820 and 1890 (Adelman 1995). It started the Industrial Revolution. Competition with Great Britain and the spread of British technology spurred industrialization in the responding countries in Europe and overseas. The Industrial Revolution primarily linked European and overseas economies in complementing development patterns, which set the trend of economic growth in developed countries overseas. It also substantially increased economic differentiation among nations. The ratio of the per capita income of the most advanced country to the least advanced country rose from 2.8:1 at the start of the Industrial Revolution to 10.4:1 or four times in 1913. This imbalance put a set of developed industrial countries in one hand and a set of raw-material, agricultural-staple-based developing countries on the other (Alderman)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Adelman, Irma. The Genesis of the Current Global Economic System. The Long Term Impact of Economic Development of Developed Countries on Developing Countries, 1995. http://are.berkeley.edu/~adelman/KEYNOTE.DOC
• Indian Springs. The Age of Nationalism 1850-1914. http://www.Indiansprings.org/image/Ch_25.pdf accessed December 13, 2006
• San Diego State University. This Big Era and the Three Essential Questions. World History for Us All, 2006. http//worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/dev/eras/era7.htm
• Science Museum, The. The Emergence of an Industrial and Urban Britain. Making the Modern World, 2004. http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/learnng_modules/history/02.TU.02/?section=2

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