The Age of Revolution

Synopsis

"What does the phrase ‘the Industrial Revolution broke out’ mean? It means that some time in the 1780s, and for the first time in human history, the shackles were taken off the productive power of human societies, which henceforth became capable of constant, rapid, and–up to the present–limitless multiplication of men, goods and services…The economy became, as it were, airborne." [Quoted in Blanning: Pursuit of Glory, p. 126]

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Released

1962

Location

Global

Setting