Chapter 17

Chapter 17 is about the industrialization. The population grow as in Western Europe, China, and Japan as in wood and charcoal, also as in prices rising up. The Industrial Revolution marked that human response was to nonrenewable fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas to replace the early reliance on the energy sources of wind, water, wood, and the muscle power of people and animals. Also, the massive extraction nonrenewable raw materials to feed and to fuel the industrial machinery as in coal, ore, iron, and petroleum. There were signs of technology in the Industrial Revolution as in Britain innovated and transformed cotton textile for production. Later in the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution focused on chemicals, precision machinery, electricity, telephone, and telegraph, rubber, printing, and much more. In the 20th century, the Industrial Revolution became global as a number of Asian, African, and Latin American countries developed a substantial industrial sectors. Oil, natural gas , and nuclear reactions joined coal as a widely available source of energy.

Europe was destined to lead the way to modern economic life. India had the long corporation of the cotton textile production, sugar, the agriculture of innovations, and mathematics innovations. China was clearly the world leader in technology innovation between the 700 and 1400 and then also by the 1200. But when the technology began to change Europe began to pick it up. The earlier the achievements Europe began to rise and not stand alone as in its capacity for the technology innovation. Europe had no obvious economic lead as the Industrial Revolution. The European capacity for the industrial development lied in the industrial techniques. Even though, the process was highly uneven.

Women in the middle class families were highly increased as to wives, mothers, and homemakers. Women were also expected to be the moral center of their family life and responsible of their household consumption. "An ideology of domesticity defined homemaking, child raring, charitable endeavors, and refined activities such as embroidery, music, and drawing, as the proper sphere for women, while paid employment and public sphere of life outside the home beckoned." I think that was pretty sad that women were just looked upon on how they take cared of things and their families. The fact that men had no part as what they women did for their families and also for their husband is really disrespectful.