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Social History Present and Future

Peter N. Stearns

Peter N. Stearns is Professor of History at George Mason University, USA. A leading expert on world history, he has authored and edited numerous acclaimed books, including The Encyclopedia of World History (2001), Globalization in World History (2009) and World Civilizations: The Global Experience (2006). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Historiography: Critical Readings Volume III : Scientific Models: From the West to the World

Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

Critical Readings in Historiography

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... the good old days have been followed by some pretty good new days. The field retains its ability to innovate and excite. On the topical evolution, Peter N. Stearns, “The Old Social History and the New,” in Layton, Gom, and Williams, eds.,...

Why Britain?

Peter N. Stearns

Peter N. Stearns is Professor of History at George Mason University, USA. A leading expert on world history, he has authored and edited numerous acclaimed books, including The Encyclopedia of World History (2001), Globalization in World History (2009) and World Civilizations: The Global Experience (2006). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Debating the Industrial Revolution

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Any causation discussion must include the question of why Britain so clearly took the lead in industrialization, at least three decades before any other society launched a process and as literally the only instance in which this kind...

Industrialization of the world, 1990 and onward

Peter N. Stearns

Peter N. Stearns is Professor of History at George Mason University, USA. A leading expert on world history, he has authored and edited numerous acclaimed books, including The Encyclopedia of World History (2001), Globalization in World History (2009) and World Civilizations: The Global Experience (2006). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Debating the Industrial Revolution

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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... and Peter N. Stearns , The Industrial Revolution in World History, 4/e ( Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 2013) . On multinationals,...

Industrializing late: Adjusting the causes

Peter N. Stearns

Peter N. Stearns is Professor of History at George Mason University, USA. A leading expert on world history, he has authored and edited numerous acclaimed books, including The Encyclopedia of World History (2001), Globalization in World History (2009) and World Civilizations: The Global Experience (2006). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Debating the Industrial Revolution

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Latecomer industrializations—with Japan’s heading the list—generate their own demand for explanation. Several themes predominate. First, of course, is the question of what factors carry over from the classic cases of industrialization...

Initial explanations: Working the Industrial Revolution into British and European history

Peter N. Stearns

Peter N. Stearns is Professor of History at George Mason University, USA. A leading expert on world history, he has authored and edited numerous acclaimed books, including The Encyclopedia of World History (2001), Globalization in World History (2009) and World Civilizations: The Global Experience (2006). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Debating the Industrial Revolution

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...This chapter sketches the history of early efforts to explain industrialization, and more generally to work the Industrial Revolution into serious historical coverage. The goal is to provide a baseline for understanding the more recent...

The global framework and new comparative debates

Peter N. Stearns

Peter N. Stearns is Professor of History at George Mason University, USA. A leading expert on world history, he has authored and edited numerous acclaimed books, including The Encyclopedia of World History (2001), Globalization in World History (2009) and World Civilizations: The Global Experience (2006). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Debating the Industrial Revolution

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...The most intriguing specific debates over the causes of the Industrial Revolution have taken shape over the past 15 years around a new (though contested) view of Europe’s position in the world economy and the long under-appreciated economic...

For further discussion

Peter N. Stearns

Peter N. Stearns is Professor of History at George Mason University, USA. A leading expert on world history, he has authored and edited numerous acclaimed books, including The Encyclopedia of World History (2001), Globalization in World History (2009) and World Civilizations: The Global Experience (2006). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Debating the Industrial Revolution

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...The Industrial Revolution and its interaction with world history have now passed the second century mark, but questions persist as to exactly what factors set it in motion and facilitated its expansion. This chapter raises some of the key...

Demand and education: Two categories for debate

Peter N. Stearns

Peter N. Stearns is Professor of History at George Mason University, USA. A leading expert on world history, he has authored and edited numerous acclaimed books, including The Encyclopedia of World History (2001), Globalization in World History (2009) and World Civilizations: The Global Experience (2006). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Debating the Industrial Revolution

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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... ; and Peter N. Stearns , Consumerism in World History ( New York : Routledge, 2001) on consumerism and world trade before...

Why debate the Industrial Revolution?

Peter N. Stearns

Peter N. Stearns is Professor of History at George Mason University, USA. A leading expert on world history, he has authored and edited numerous acclaimed books, including The Encyclopedia of World History (2001), Globalization in World History (2009) and World Civilizations: The Global Experience (2006). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Debating the Industrial Revolution

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...The Industrial Revolution was one of the truly big changes in modern world history—arguably, the greatest single transformation in the human experience over the past 250 years. The revolution’s core centered on the development of new...

Pinpointing the Industrial Revolution: Features, times, and places

Peter N. Stearns

Peter N. Stearns is Professor of History at George Mason University, USA. A leading expert on world history, he has authored and edited numerous acclaimed books, including The Encyclopedia of World History (2001), Globalization in World History (2009) and World Civilizations: The Global Experience (2006). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Debating the Industrial Revolution

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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... On global and social aspects of the Industrial Revolution, see Peter N. Stearns , The Industrial Revolution in World History, 4/e ( Boulder, CO : Westview...