Table of Contents:

1 Introduction: Defining the Industrial Revolution
Part I: The First Phase, 1760-1880: Western Primacy, Global Contexts, and Global Results
2 Britain’s Revolution
3 New Causes
4 The Industrial Revolution in Western Society
5 The Social Impact of the Industrial Revolution
6 The Industrial Revolution Outside the West

Part II: The Second Phase, 1880-1950: The New International Cast
7 The Industrial Revolution Changes Stripes, 1880—1950
8 The Industrial Revolution in Russia
9 The Industrial Revolution in Japan
10 New Developments in Western Societies: A Second Revolution?
11 The Industrial Revolution in International Context

Part III: The Third Phase, 1950s-2020s: The Industrialization of the World
12 The Industrial Revolution in the Past Half Century
13 New Industrial Revolutions: Transforming the International Balance Sheet
14 Advanced Industrial Economies: A New Revolution?
15 Globalization and Exploitation: A New World Economy
16 Global Industry and the Environment
17 Industrial Disruptions, 2008-2020

This book,  examines the manner in which the industrial revolution transformed world history, focusing on the international forces that contributed to its beginning, its global spread, and its effects from the end of the eighteenth century to the present day. The industrial revolution, the single most significant event in human history during the previous three centuries, continues to affect the present world.  Beyond the West, the book examines India, the Middle East, and China, and it now includes more information on significant Latin American and African economies, as well as the heightened tensions surrounding the economic aspects of globalisation and the collapse of Western manufacturing since 2008. This book also includes chapter on significant historiographical arguments,  suggestions for further reading, and boxed debating features that urge the reader to examine diversity and diverse perspectives in his or her own analysis, as well as a greater focus on environmental concerns. Students of international history and economics, as well as anybody interested in learning more about the global repercussions of what is undoubtedly the defining socioeconomic event of the modern era, should read this book.