Industrial Revolution · TURNING POINT ·
Singapore (1819–1914)
1819–1914 — A free port at the crossroads of the steamship and cable routes: coal bunkers, tin and rubber from Malaya, Chinese and Indian migrants. The hub of a world economy run on coal and telegraph.
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- Great Divergence and global trade (chapter 11 of Industrial Revolution)
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- The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914
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