What’s the Significance?
steam engine, 830
Indian cotton textiles, 831
middle-class values, 837–38
lower middle class, 838
Ellen Johnston, 840–41
Karl Marx, 842–44
Labour Party, 844
socialism in the United States, 849–50
Progressives, 850
Russian Revolution of 1905, 851–52
caudillos, 853
Latin American export boom, 854–56
Mexican Revolution, 858
dependent development, 859
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
John Charles Chasteen, Born in Blood and Fire (2006). A lively and well-written account of Latin America’s turbulent history since the sixteenth century.
Jack Gladstone, Why Europe? The Rise of the West in World History, 1500–1850 (2009). An original synthesis of recent research provided by a leading world historian.
David S. Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (1998). An argument that culture largely shapes the possibilities for industrialization and economic growth.
Robert B. Marks, The Origins of the Modern World (2007). An effective summary of new thinking about the origins of European industrialization.
Peter Stearns, The Industrial Revolution in World History (1998). A global and comparative perspective on the Industrial Revolution.
Peter Waldron, The End of Imperial Russia, 1855–1917 (1997). A brief account of Russian history during its early industrialization.
Bridging World History, Units 18 and 19, http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/worldhistory. An innovative world history Web site that provides pictures, video, and text dealing with “Rethinking the Rise of the West” and “Global Industrialization.”