What you have you learned in the past about the origins and nature of the Industrial Revolution, and how did the Marks chapter complicate that?

Traditionalist view: Roots of the IR Europe’s political system (small, competitive states) Desperation for revenue from European gov’ts led to alliances between merchant classes and monarchs, allowing for more open market-based economies and the origins of industrial capitalism Europe’s conquest of the Americas allowed it to draw disproportionately on world resources Europe “found itself at the hub of the largest and most varied network of exchange in history”

Why Britain? Geography Access to Raw Materials / Colonies Per capita income / constitutionalism lends itself to liberalist economics of Smith Enclosure Movement The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from off the goose. The law demands that we atone When we take things we do not own But leaves the lords and ladies fine Who take things that are yours and mine. The poor and wretched don’t escape If they conspire the law to break; This must be so but they endure Those who conspire to make the law. The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common And geese will still a common lack Till they go and steal it back.

To what extent can it be argued that the IR’s origins were truly global? _______ Do you think the IR could have happened in another part of the world? What’s your evidence?