Why Did the Industrial Revolution Happen in Britain? ~ Robert Allen (Great Divergence #3)
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Episode: Why Did the Industrial Revolution Happen in Britain? ~ Robert Allen (Great Divergence #3)
Pub date: 2026-04-29
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Why was industrial modernity born in Europe and not, say, China? This is one of the most consequential questions about the origins of the modern world. Yet asking “why Europe” can mislead. The Industrial Revolution was not a European event. It was a British event.
So why was the steam engine invented in Britain, and not France…
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