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  2. The Revolution (miniseries) - Wikipedia

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    The Revolution [1] (also known as The American Revolution) is a 2006 American miniseries from The History Channel composed of thirteen episodes which track the American Revolution from the Boston Massacre through the Treaty of Paris, which declared America's independence from Great Britain. The series is narrated by Edward Herrmann .

  3. Mankind: The Story of All of Us - Wikipedia

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    The Industrial Revolution replaces muscle power with machines, freeing Mankind from nature's limits. But our oldest foe–disease–thrives in industrial cities. With the American Civil War, the two revolutions collide. The world's first industrial war, it is a battle to define freedom.

  4. Industrious Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The Industrious Revolution was a period in early modern Europe lasting from approximately 1600 to 1800 in which household productivity and consumer demand increased despite the absence of major technological innovations that would mark the later Industrial Revolution. [1] [2] [3] Proponents of the Industrious Revolution theory argue that the ...

  5. History of clothing and textiles - Wikipedia

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    Industrial revolution Textile machinery at the Cambrian Factory, Llanwrtyd , Wales in the 1940s Estonian national clothes are a fine example of change in clothing after the industrial revolution. They changed a lot during 18th and 19th of century with the addition of new types of colors (like aniline dyes), placement of colors (like lengthwise ...

  6. Industrial Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution. Beginning in Great Britain, the Industrial Revolution spread ...

  7. Proto-industrialization - Wikipedia

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    Proto-industrialization is the regional development, alongside commercial agriculture, of rural handicraft production for external markets. The term was introduced in the early 1970s by economic historians who argued that such developments in parts of Europe between the 16th and 19th centuries created the social and economic conditions that led to the Industrial Revolution.

  8. Heeramandi - Wikipedia

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    Heeramandi. Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar is an Indian Hindi / Urdu -language period drama television series created and directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. The series is about the lives of tawaifs in the red-light district of Heera Mandi in Lahore during the Indian independence movement against the British Raj. [2]

  9. Revolution - Wikipedia

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    e. In political science, a revolution ( Latin: revolutio, 'a turn around') is a rapid, fundamental transformation of a society's state, class, ethnic or religious structures. [1] [2] [3] A revolution involves the attempted change in political regimes, substantial mass mobilization, and efforts to force change through non- institutionalized ...