The Industrial Revolution

John Mills

Chapter 3 in Managing the World Economy, 2000, pp 57-79 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Civilisation began some eleven thousand years ago, shortly after the end of the last Ice Age. Our ancestors, after hundreds of thousands of years of formative experience in foraging bands, began to form permanent settlements, as agriculture began and the very small number of types of animals and birds which are key to farming started to be domesticated. In about 8500 BC, in the Middle Eastern Fertile Crescent, wheat, peas and olives began to be harvested, followed by barley, lentils, chickpeas, flax and musk melons. Sheep and goats were evidently the first animals to be reared in captivity for food and milk, followed by cattle, and horses for riding and pulling. Similar developments began in China about a thousand years later.1

Keywords: Nineteenth Century; World Economy; Free Trade; Money Supply; Industrial Revolution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1057/9780333977842_3

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