The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914 · THE MAP AROUND
Map of the industrial world around 1750
An Atlantic and Asian world
The industrial world around 1750: An Atlantic and Asian world. The map shows who held what: Colony or dependency.
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On the ground
- the plantation coast of the Chesapeake and the Carolina lowcountry, worked by enslaved people
- the sugar islands of the Caribbean, worked by enslaved Africans
- the sugar coast of north-eastern Brazil, worked by enslaved people
- the weaving district of Bengal, famous for the muslins of Dhaka
- the weaving district of Gujarat around Surat and Ahmedabad
- the Coromandel coast, home of the painted chintzes of south-east India
- the Yangzi delta (Jiangnan), China’s great cotton- and silk-weaving region
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