Talk:Industrial Revolution

Note that if ordinary people did the same thing, it is called "stealing" and "killing", and they are punished for it. But when countries do it, they can say it is because they much more clever and civilised than everyone else in the world, who doesn't kill and steal. This is because the people who run those countries do not believe they will ever be punished. This is what they mean by "Enlightenment".

i know this is the simple english wikipedia but could we consider changing all of "england"s into "great britian"s simply because that was the correct name of the dommentent country of the british isles at that time

Don't you think the article is a bit conceited and opinionated.It was obviously not written by a Brit. Such as "Nobody really knows why the revolution started in Great Britain' Or did he say little England? It's obvious to everyone else! Something to do with the British empire? The heavy wealth and trade coming into Britain, especially cotton. 'Of course Britain was making money from the slave trade', and that's a good reason how the revolution started'. 'Britain's a little country and had little farmland so they needed to make industrial towns instead'. LOL, How old was this person? Oh sorry, Little England. 'Britain had the special resources' Like wood from the trees?? That's what they used at the beginning, until the trees got too far away.And wow they discovered a black rock that could burn called coal, then gas. then oil,then petroleum!

I don't know, but it might be worth also mentioning the people who laid the theoretical foundations:

• Max Weber: Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus (1904): Esp. with Protestants: God gives wealth and success to the people who please him
• Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations (1776)
• Marx /Engels
• John Locke /Thomas Hobbes
• Taylorism / Fordism
• Nikolai Kondratiev / Joseph Schumpeter

I am not a historian, so can't really help; just ideas...--Eptalon (talk) 21:45, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]