Part Three: Transformation to Urban Industrial Capitalism

Part 3, The Nineteenth Century in Europe Part 1 Dr. Roger van Zwanenberg Part 3, The Nineteenth Century in Europe Part 1 Dr. Roger van Zwanenberg

#31 Britain and the 19th Century

The growth of 19th century manufacturing was built on the back of Enslaved People, the taxes of Indian peasants and the subsequent impoverishment of the Indian peoples. Enslaved peoples provided cotton, the raw material, from which industrial textile manufacturing became the leading product of the industrial revolution. The money derived from Indian taxpayers became the backbone of the City of London.

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