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# Used Book Historical Insight Time Period The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Making of the Modern World 1776-1914

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## Key Features

- • **Engaging Read:** Captivating storytelling that keeps you hooked.
- • **Good Condition:** Enjoy a quality read with minimal wear.
- • **Richly Detailed:** Explore the intricate narratives that shaped modern society.
- • **Uncover the Past:** Dive into the transformative era of 1776-1914.
- • **Perfect for Professionals:** Ideal for those seeking to understand the roots of today's world.

## Overview

The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Making of the Modern World, 1776–1914 is a used book in good condition that offers an in-depth exploration of the pivotal events and figures that shaped the modern world during a transformative period in history.

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent in several ways
*by P***N on May 18, 2014*

This books covers not only the inventors but the spies and publicists who pushed the inventor's fruit, ending in 1914 just before WW1.It's chock full of fascinating characters, some good, some bad, some unknown in their homelands yet cherished halfway around the world for the transformation they wrought, NTM the British 'roast-bifs' or 'navvies' in France who's energy shocked the upper classes as they built France's first RR's, and changed the French diet for the common working man.The truly incredible stories of how Japan was transformed in part by a couple of five shipwrecked fishermen, followed by spies bent on preserving Japan's isolation but discovering that had become obviously impossible and too dangerous, compelling them to support Japan becoming a modern nation fully active in the world.Critical industries often ignored, like petroleum are included, in part because their creation and transformation was in just 2-3 decades, as is the pneumatic bicycle rubber tire by a guy who'd never ridden one.This is less about nations trying to keep up like France or Japan, though they're included, than people seeking advantage of their opportunities.You may think you know the industrial revolution as I did, but I'm fairly sure you'll learn something new here.This isn't to say there aren't errors, as other reviewers have noted; the price of the Louisiana Purchase is reported as 80 million dollars after it was previously mentioned as 80 million francs, though the correct US figure of $15 million is given in the book's summation [a quarter being the US assumption of French debts to US citizens] and actual payment was arranged by both a British and Dutch bank, who took the $3 million in gold plus the rest in US government bonds while paying cash to Napoleon who demanded cash immediately, though that story isn't in the book; but knowledgeable readers should spot other mistakes or typos fairly easily.Overall, this a very human story that while some may seem too fantastic, ring true to the potential in all of us to change the world in some way for the better.Enjoy!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Interesting insights into what drove innovative change agents
*by K***S on January 18, 2025*

A good read that digs into the personal stories of major innovators. The degree to which this relatively brief span of history shaped the world we live in is amazing.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ An interesting way of examining "industrial revolutions" and the development of the modern world
*by M***R on September 23, 2009*

The author has written a clear and valuable text to complement much of the arcane material that is available on the process of modernisation.In some ways it is a return to an earlier way of considering the means by which the modern world developed, but supplemented with lots of local detail to illustrate the process at work and avoiding silly generalisations. We are not submerged in a mass of statistics or consideration of econometric models and the book does not suffer as a consequence of this fact. Rather, the emphasis is on the inventors, engineers and entrepreneurs whose actions helped to create our current world. Thus individual efforts, whether successful or otherwise, are pieced together so that we are able to put together the individual pieces into our own mental jigsaw, aided by the interconnected nature of much of the material; thus, after someone has invented a process often we are reliant on other people to introduce the process into use.

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