THE SPREAD OF INDUSTRIALISM
- rival powers used their tools, technologies, and resources to get raw materials from preindustrial societies
- industrial countries dominated the preindustrial places, who had little to no power about materials being exported away
- devastated traditional industries and damaged local economies
INDUSTRIALIZATION IN WESTERN EUROPE
- the french revolution and napoleonic wars got rid of internal trade barriers and guilds that discouraged technological innovation, which let industrialization happen here
FRANCE
- France also has success of efficient machinery and innovations
- railroad construction stimulated economic development and led to decreased transportation costs’
GERMANY
- German industrialization was slower/less successful than belgium and france because of political instability of germanic states
- by 1840s: coal and iron production soared
- by 1850s: extensive railroads network constructed
- after unification Bismarck’s government led to rapid industrialization
- huge businesses made for heavy industry to strengthen military capacity. an example is the giant Krupp firm that dominated mining, metallurgy, weapon production, and shipbuilding
BELGIUM
- Belgium had great success of coal, iron, textile and glass industries
This map shows the spread of different industries throughout Western Europe.
INDUSTRIALIZATION IN NORTH AMERICA
- labor and investment capital came from Europe to start the process of industrialization
- had abundant natural resources, and because of this, this helped to facilitate industrialization
- began in 1820’s when british craftsmen built a cotton textile in New England, which then became a site of of industrial production
- heavy iron and steel industries in Pennsylvania and central Alabama, and then had started to spread to Canada
- canals, steamship lines, and railroad network also helped industrialization
THE GLOBAL SPREAD OF INDUSTRIALIZATION
Russia
- encouraged construction of railroads to link w distant regions
- trans-Siberian line, linked moscow with Vladivostok on the pacific
- railroads stimulated the development of coal, iron, and steel industries
The map above shows the Trans-Siberian Railroad line that linked various parts of Russia to help facilitate industralization.
Synthesis: The trans-Siberian line is similar to the Silk Road in a sense, because both connected parts of a region that helped to facilitate trade. The trans-Siberian line let Russia serve as a commercial link between western Europe and east Asia. This let various regions trade in and throughout Russia, bringing Russia economic expansion. This also let the coal, iron, and steel industries of the Russian Empire spread through the routes, spreading industrialization. This is similar to the Silk Road, because it also connected trading routes from Chine. to the Mediterranean, to Europe, facilitating inventions and industries across its' trade routes.
Count Sergei Witte
The picture to the right shows Witte, who led Russia to it's growth of industry.
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Japan
- foreign experts hired to instruct workers in techniques of modern industry
- modernized iron foundries and dockyards
- made new businesses, and opened schools specialized in scientific and technical fields
- construction of railroads, opening of mines, banking system, mechanized industries that produced ships, armaments, silk, cotton, chemicals, glass
- zaibatsu- wealthy cliques: huge industrial empires built by private entrepreneurs
- operated and controlled companies in several industries
- was the most industrialized land in asia
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