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The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914 · THE MAP AROUND c. 1750
Map of the industrial world around 1750
An Atlantic and Asian world
The industrial world around 1750: An Atlantic and Asian world. The map shows who held what: Colony or dependency.
c. 1750 · THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1750–1914 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Bartholomew: Literary & Historical Atlas of America,1911 · Bartholomew: Literary and Historical Atlas of Asia,1912 · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 · University of Oregon: spread of cotton and slavery1790–1860 · Von Steinwehr: distribution of slavery and staple-product districts,1861 · Natural Earth physical geography · Maps of History: industrial geography reconstruction record
Source details John George Bartholomew,1911; economic maps and named transport routes. Original cartographer died1920; independent geographic reconstruction.. Public-domain original historical cartography; geographic facts independently reconstructed John George Bartholomew,1912; economic mapspp40–41,72–73, products54–55; regional railway maps and route gazetteer. Original author died1920. Only geographic facts independently reconstructed; ebook text/brand not republished.. Public-domain original historical cartography; geographic facts independently reconstructed Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. Selected, combined, reprojected and corrected by Maps of History as described per layer.. CC BY4.0 University of Oregon Mapping History: dated direction of expansion. Earlier regional footprints remain educational reconstructions, not county statistics.. Geographic historical facts; original animation/artwork not copied Library of Congress; downloaded four-page historical map includes staple-product inset. Earlier cotton phases are separately sourced.. Historical1861 published map; independent geographic reconstruction Made with Natural Earth; present coastlines support physical clipping, not historical political boundaries.. Public domain Named districts and route stations from the linked published atlases. District perimeters are interpretive economic regions, not sovereign borders or parcel-level industrial land use.. Original independent thematic reconstructions; source artwork not embedded Country fills apply the existing educational industrialisation stages to dated published polities. They do not imply that development was uniform throughout each empire. Economic districts represent thematic regions. Source dates and reconstruction methods are recorded separately.
reconstruction: Named district within chapter chronology · vector: 1429–1771 · vector: 1526–1858 · vector: 1609–1821 · vector: 1612–1848 · vector: 1619–1819 · vector: 1619–1824 · vector: 1619–1829 · vector: 1626–1865 · vector: 1636–1768 · vector: 1636–1804 · vector: 1636–1821 · vector: 1636–1889 · vector: 1640–1859 · vector: 1640–1861 · vector: 1645–1793 · vector: 1670–1751 · vector: 1670–1762 · vector: 1670–1808 · vector: 1670–1821 · vector: 1670–1856 · vector: 1673–1841 · vector: 1677–1806 · vector: 1683–1751 · vector: 1683–1787 · vector: 1683–1793 · vector: 1687–1768 · vector: 1687–1848 · vector: 1691–1799 · vector: 1700–1756 · vector: 1702–1756 · vector: 1706–1787 · vector: 1709–1756 · vector: 1709–1774 · vector: 1709–1787 · vector: 1709–1791 · vector: 1709–1798 · vector: 1709–1855 · vector: 1713–1756 · vector: 1713–1761 · vector: 1713–1768 · vector: 1718–1780 · vector: 1721–1756 · vector: 1721–1774 · vector: 1721–1813 · vector: 1727–1751 · vector: 1727–1771 · vector: 1727–1774 · vector: 1727–1819 · vector: 1727–1899 · vector: 1734–1751 · vector: 1734–1768 · vector: 1734–1771 · vector: 1734–1793 · vector: 1734–1795 · vector: 1734–1841 · vector: 1738–1751 · vector: 1738–1756 · vector: 1738–1768 · vector: 1738–1798 · vector: 1738–1799 · vector: 1741–1751 · vector: 1741–1756 · vector: 1741–1768 · vector: 1741–1771 · vector: 1741–1814 · vector: 1744–1751 · vector: 1744–1756 · vector: 1744–1761 · vector: 1744–1762 · vector: 1744–1774 · vector: 1744–1787 · vector: 1744–1799 · vector: 1744–1827 · vector: 1744–1848 · vector: 1748–1751 · vector: 1748–1756 · vector: 1748–1762 · vector: 1748–1779 · vector: 1748–1791 · vector: 1748–1793 · vector: 1748–1796 · vector: 1750
Layer records and reconstruction methods
On the ground the plantation coast of the Chesapeake and the Carolina lowcountry, where enslaved people worked the Caribbean sugar islands, where enslaved Africans worked the sugar coast of northeastern Brazil, worked by enslaved people the Bengal weaving district, renowned for the muslins of Dhaka the Gujarat weaving district around Surat and Ahmedabad the Coromandel coast of southeastern India, home to painted chintzes the Yangzi delta (Jiangnan), a great Chinese region of cotton and silk weaving
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