... of Globalization: A Very Short Introduction (Steger 15). This historical event, which took place from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, shifted agricultural, rural societies to industrial, urban societies in Europe and North America. Before the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the late eighteenth century, economies were based on agricultural production and handicrafts, using hand tools and basic machines. By the mid nineteenth century, industrialization spread ... adult and child morality. The combination of these two factors allowed populations to expand rapidly...

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