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The Industrial Revolution: Why England?
* Historiography is the process of determining where history came and how it was written. It especially hones in on the analysis of why it was written and based on what sources.
* Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand Theory followed the idea of laissez-faire philosophy which limited the influence of government and promotes free market. His theory follows that stimulation of the economy will occur with people looking out for themselves ads to the success of the whole.
* Established by Thomas Malthus, Malthusianism is the idea that population tends to grow outside of its means. Without a disastrous phenomenon such as a plague or moral constraint to check growth, the population will grow into poverty
* The fundamental idea of Marx’s economic theory came as a response to the appalling working conditions of the time. His socialist economic theory promoted an overthrow of private property and capitalist ideas in order to establish a government oriented towards the dignity and equality of the people while serving the common good.
* William McNeill held that the rise of the West defined the past 500 years as a whole. However, his view changed to explain the rise in the West in a more sophisticated manner. With a new perspective of conjuncture along with contingency and accident, McNeill embraced the idea that circumstances of industrialization and independent development by western countries caused the Revolution to first take place in England.
* Landes held a view contrary to many other historians that Britain and the west had established its dominance over the world by 1000 A.D. Lande’s theory for the rise of the West over the world can be summed up into one word: culture. A dynamic culture can be observed in the West as the style of ruling and government gave way to working for the people unlike the “despotic emperors who exploited subjects for their own benefit.” (Landes, 3) The development of these attributes...