As editor Kenneth E. Hendrickson, III, notes in his introduction: “Since the end of the nineteenth-century, industrialization has become a global phenomenon. After the relative completion of the advanced industrial economies of the West after 1945, patterns of rapid economic change invaded societies beyond western Europe, North America, the Commonwealth, and Japan.” In The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History contributors survey the Industrial Revolution as a world historical phenomenon rather than through the traditional lens of a development largely restricted to Western society.
The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History is a three-volume work of over 1,000 entries on the rise and spread of the Industrial Revolution across the world. Entries comprise accessible but scholarly explorations of topics from the “aerospace industry” to “zaibatsu.” Contributor articles not only address topics of technology and technical innovation but emphasize the individual human and social experience of industrialization. Entries include generous selections of biographical figures and human communities, with articles on entrepreneurs, working men and women, families, and organizations. They also cover legal developments, disasters, and the environmental impact of the Industrial Revolution. Each entry also includes cross-references and a brief list of suggested readings to alert readers to more detailed information.
The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History includes over 300 illustrations, as well as artfully selected, extended quotations from key primary sources, from Thomas Malthus’ “Essay on the Principal of Population” to Arthur Young’s look at Birmingham, England in 1791. This work is the perfect reference work for anyone conducting research in the areas of technology, business, economics, and history on a world historical scale.
Kenneth E. Hendrickson, III is professor of History at Sam Houston State University. He is the editor of The Life and Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: An Annotated Bibliography, 3 Volumes (Scarecrow, 2006) and the author of The Historical Dictionary of the Darwin Controversy.
Table of Contents
1905 Russian Revolution 1917 Russian Revolution 1926 General Strike (Britain) 40 Principles of Invention AB Volvo Acheson, Edward Goodrich Aerosol spray cans Aerospace industry AFL-CIO Agent Orange Airplane Alcorn, George Edward Alger, Horatio All-China General Union Alternative energies Altshuller, Genrikh Saulovich Amalgamated Society of Engineers American Federation of Labor American Plan American Stock Exchange American System American Tobacco An Wang Anarchism Angerstein, Reinhold Rücker Anheuser, Eberhard Anthropometrics Apprentice system Arc welding Argentina ARIZ Arkwright, Richard Armstrong, Edwin Howard Armstrong, William George Arts and Crafts Movement Asano Soichiro Asbestos Ashley, Laura Asiatic Petroleum Company ASIT (Advanced Systematic Inventive Thinking) Aspdin, Joseph Assembly line Ataturk, (Mustafa, Kemal) Automobile Babbage, Charles Babcock, George H. Baekeland, Leo Bagehot, Walter Bamford, Samuel Bank of China Bank of England Bank of Japan Bank of the United States Baoshenzhi Bar code Barbed wire Barlow, William Henry Barton, Enos N. BASIC Bauer Friederich Bausch, John Jacob Bednorz, Johannes Belgium Bell, Alexander Graham Bell, Larry Bellemy, Edward Benz, Karl Bessant, Annie Bessemer Process Bessemer, Henry Beveridge, Sir William Beyer, Carl Friederich Bhopal Catastrophe Bill Smith Bimetalism Birdseye, Clarence Blacklist Blair, Henry Blanqui, Louis-Auguste Bleichröder, Gerson Blenkisop, John Bloody Sunday (Trafalgar Square) Boeing Boer War, 1899-1902 Bolsheviks Bondfield, Margaret Booth, Charles Boring machine Boulton, Matthew Bourgeoisie Boycott Boykin, Otis Brassey, Thomas Brazil
