Industrialization and the remaking of the world, 1750–1900

The revolutions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries produced representative governments and new national identities in the Atlantic world. In the midst of these revolutions, economic change occurred that equaled the political transformations in scope and intensity, first in Great Britain and then spreading across the western world. By 1900 Great Britain, the United States and a unified Germany ranked as the three most economically powerful states in the world.