Instead of making something from end-to-end, factory workers would each work specific machines that carried out different stages of a manufacturing process. The Industrial Revolution changed ...

Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics takes readers to the early stages of a process that became the structure of ...

$35 (hardcover). Joel Mokyr’s A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy gives culture center stage in the rapid economic growth and industrialization brought about by the first Industrial ...