The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914 · THE MAP AROUND
Map of the industrial world around 1850
Free trade and gunboats
The industrial world around 1850: Free trade and gunboats. Since 1830, 18 territories changed status on this map: including Great Britain and Ulster, The German states (the German Empire from 1871), Bohemia and Moravia (Habsburg Empire) and 15 more.
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What changes on the map
| Great Britain and Ulster | Industrialising → Industrial economy |
| The German states (the German Empire from 1871) | — → Industrialising |
| Bohemia and Moravia (Habsburg Empire) | — → Industrialising |
| Qing China | — → Opened by force or treaty |
| The Ottoman Empire (Anatolia) | — → Opened by force or treaty |
| Syria | — → Opened by force or treaty |
| Lebanon | — → Opened by force or treaty |
| Israel | — → Opened by force or treaty |
| Palestine | — → Opened by force or treaty |
| Jordan | — → Opened by force or treaty |
| Iraq | — → Opened by force or treaty |
| Libya | — → Opened by force or treaty |
| Cyprus | — → Opened by force or treaty |
| Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus | — → Opened by force or treaty |
| Egypt | Industrialising → Opened by force or treaty |
| Persia (mod. Iran) | — → Opened by force or treaty |
| India — the Indus and Punjab (mod. Pakistan) | — → Colony or dependency |
| Hong Kong | — → Colony or dependency |
On the ground
- the Cotton Kingdom at its height, worked by over three million enslaved people
- the sugar plantations of Cuba and Puerto Rico, worked by enslaved people until 1886 and 1873
- the Central Industrial Region of Moscow and Ivanovo, Russia’s textile heartland
- the Pennsylvania anthracite and bituminous coalfields that fed Pittsburgh’s steel
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