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The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914 · THE MAP AROUND c. 1850
Map of the industrial world around 1850
Free trade and gunboats
The industrial world around 1850: Free trade and gunboats. Since 1830, 18 territories changed status on this map: including Great Britain and Ulster, The German states (the German Empire from 1871), Bohemia and Moravia (Habsburg Empire) and 15 more.
c. 1850 · THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1750–1914 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Atack: nineteenth-century US canals, March2017 · 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 Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University. Shapefile metadata explicitly grants free use; source segment dates and identities retained.. Author metadata grants free use by anyone with source acknowledgement 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: 1526–1858 · vector: 1626–1865 · vector: 1636–1889 · vector: 1640–1859 · vector: 1640–1861 · vector: 1670–1856 · vector: 1709–1855 · vector: 1727–1899 · vector: 1762–1889 · vector: 1769–1889 · vector: 1775–1872 · vector: 1783–1852 · vector: 1796–1852 · vector: 1803–1858 · vector: 1803–1860 · vector: 1803–1889 · vector: 1811–1856 · vector: 1811–1869 · vector: 1814–1863 · vector: 1815–1869 · vector: 1815–1937 · vector: 1820–1852 · vector: 1820–1863 · vector: 1820–1864 · vector: 1820–1865 · vector: 1820–1869 · vector: 1820–1872 · vector: 1820–1876 · vector: 1820–1899 · vector: 1822–1855 · vector: 1822–1860 · vector: 1822–1863 · vector: 1822–1864 · vector: 1822–1872 · vector: 1822–1894 · vector: 1824–1852 · vector: 1824–1855 · vector: 1828–1855 · vector: 1828–1864 · vector: 1828–1865 · vector: 1828–1884 · vector: 1830 · vector: 1830–1855 · vector: 1830–1876 · vector: 1834–1852 · vector: 1834–1858 · vector: 1834–1904 · vector: 1836–1855 · vector: 1836–1856 · vector: 1836–1862 · vector: 1836–1867 · vector: 1840–1852 · vector: 1840–1858 · vector: 1840–1863 · vector: 1840–1864 · vector: 1840–1865 · vector: 1840–1867 · vector: 1840–1869 · vector: 1840–1872 · vector: 1840–1894 · vector: 1840–1904 · vector: 1840–1978 · vector: 1842–1852 · vector: 1842–1858 · vector: 1842–1863 · vector: 1842–1889 · vector: 1842–1894 · vector: 1842–1907 · vector: 1842–1912 · vector: 1846–1852 · vector: 1846–1855 · vector: 1846–1858 · vector: 1846–1859 · vector: 1846–1860 · vector: 1848–1852 · vector: 1848–1855 · vector: 1848–1864 · vector: 1848–1884 · vector: 1848–1935 · vector: 1849–1852 · vector: 1849–1855 · vector: 1849–1858 · vector: 1849–1859 · vector: 1849–1904 · vector: 1850 · vector: Erie Canal completed1825 / source2017
Layer records and reconstruction methods
What changes on the map
On the ground the Cotton Kingdom at its height, worked by more than three million enslaved people the sugar plantations of Cuba and Puerto Rico, worked by enslaved people until 1886 and 1873 respectively the Central Industrial Region around Moscow and Ivanovo, the heartland of Russian textiles the Pennsylvania anthracite and bituminous coalfields that supplied Pittsburgh’s steel industry
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