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By reading this chapter I learned that three major thesis conquered the history of Western society between 1750 and 1914. They there: political disturbance caused by major Revolutions in the West; introduction of Western European institutions and values to colonist countries such as United States; industrialization. The greatest change of all was industrialization. The Industrial Revolution modernized the economy, first in Britain and then in the rest of western Europe and United States. It presented dramatic new …

…investors who were normally cautious were willing to put their capital into these ventures, which instead of pouring iron to make guns now made iron ore into stoves and pots. Once Britain initiated industrialization, other Western nations stated following new changes. In France revolutionary laws helped to give a free rein to industrialization by destroying local restrictions on trade, protecting private property and eliminating artisan quilts that had often tried to defend older production techniques.