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An Environmental History of the Industrial Revolution

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Carson Fellow John McNeill betrachtet die industrielle Revolution und wie sie wahrgenommen wurde. Er beschreibt eine Veränderung der Umwelt, aber auch, wie viele verschiedene Länder dadurch in Verbindung traten. Es findet eine globale Veränderung statt. Es stehen die einzelnen Bestandteile der industriellen Revolution im Vordergrund, wo sie herkommen und was sie verändert haben. Carson Fellow John McNeills Forschungen konzentrieren sich auf die Geschichte des Mittelmeerraums, des tropischen Atlantiks und der pazifischen Inseln.
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Carson Fellow John McNeill is currently working on his new book A Global Environmental History of the Industrial Revolution. In this original project, McNeill reformulates the traditional understanding of the Industrial Revolution, exposing a profoundly ecological and environmental transformation of the world that took place not only in Europe, North America, and Japan but also in the remote places and lands from which the raw materials were extracted. Since 1985, Prof. Dr. McNeill has taught at Georgetown University, where he held the Cinco Hermanos Chair in Environmental and International Affairs before becoming a university professor in 2006.
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My name is John McNeil. I'm a professor of history from Georgetown University in the United States. And right now, I'm a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center here in Munich. During my time here at the Rachel Carson Center, I'm gonna be devoting myself to what will be my next book project,
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a global environmental history of the Industrial Revolution. And what I wanna do with this is recast historians' understanding of the Industrial Revolution as an ecological and environmental transformation.
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Historians, by and large, understand it as an economic and social transformation, which indeed it was. But it was more than that. And indeed, I would say, more fundamentally, it was an environmental and ecological transformation. So that's my first goal. My second goal is to globalize our understanding
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of the Industrial Revolution and to show how it was not merely something that happened in England and then spread to the European continent, eventually to Eastern North America, and late in the 19th century to Japan and Russia. No, it was from the outset a global process
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in which the raw materials for industrialization came from near and far. So the cotton that went into the textile mills in the early stages of industrialization, it didn't come from England, it didn't come from Germany, it came from the American South, from Egypt, from India, eventually from other places as well.
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The wool that went into textiles came from Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, et cetera. The ores that went into the metallurgical stages of industrialization came not only from Europe and the British Isles, but also from far-flung places,
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Spain, Malaya, South Africa, and so forth. So I'm going to try to chart the ingredients of the Industrial Revolution as if it were a cooking process and show
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where they came from and show the environmental changes that resulted from the production in quantity of the fibers and ores and other raw materials, other ingredients of industrialization.