As editor Kenneth E. Hendrickson, III, notes in his introduction: “Since the end of the nineteenth-century, industrialization has become a global phenomenon.

"In The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History" contributors survey the Industrial Revolution as a world historical phenomenon rather than t

Contains over two hundred alphabetically arranged articles that provide information about key individuals, technologies, inventions, court cases, companies, pol

The discoveries and developments underlaying much current technology are described in this encyclopedia covering the major people, events, and inventions of the

The industrial revolution was the single most important development in human history over the past three centuries, and it continues to shape the contemporary w