J. Bradford DeLong (2008): 1870: The Real Industrial Revolution: The most important fact to grasp about the world economy of 1870 is that the economy then belonged much more to its past of the Middle Ages than to its future of—well, of us, and what our successors eventually decide they want to use as an overarching term with which to label our age of fuel, machine, and digit...
This File: http://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/1870-as-the-watershed.html
Edit This File: http://www.typepad.com/site/blogs/6a00e551f08003883401b8d2c935d5970c/page/6a00e551f0800388340224e03bfef4200d/edit?saved=1
Teaching Economics: http://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/contents.html