ABSTRACT
The spread and intensification of the industrial revolution inevitably had a far greater world impact than during the revolution's earlier decades. Africa was more fully drawn into the process of supplying foods and raw materials to slake the seemingly unquenchable appetite of industrial Europe. Several societies within the British Commonwealth developed extensive industry along with the sophisticated commercial production of food or minerals for sale to the West and Japan. Along with the growing international impact of the industrial revolution, different regional responses generated an increasingly complex world economic map. The impact of industrially induced economic change on the environment increased notably in the second industrial period not only in the factory centers but also in some of the export-producing regions. The Turkish portion of the Ottoman Empire was one region that generated increasing factory production for export in the late nineteenth century.
