The Industrial revolution spread worldwide gradually, but in different rates (tab. 6.2).

The basic industries

Agriculture

Influence of industrial revolution on the country

England

« A workshop of the world », « World carrier », « Mistress of the world »

• Coal mining;

• Melt of pig-iron (more than 1/2 world productions of metal);

• Light industry (more than 1/2 world productions of cotton fabrics);

• Mechanical engineering.

• A market: England, the countries of Europe, India, China.

• Supporting role in comparison with industry .

• Huge concentration of landed property.

• The main figure of agrarian attitudes - the farmer, renting the ground and using mercenary labour.

• Economic and military domination over the world (the fleet from steamships with powerful artillery dictated the will worldwide).

• Carrying out of a colonization policy.

France

Manufacture of silk fabrics (silk was the major part of the French export).

France was primary the agrarian country.

The system of granting the cheap credits to industrialists introduced by the state for stimulation of industrial growth (Napoleon III) .

Germany

• The agrarian country;

• The domination of the large landowner's property

USA

Cotton branch ( internal market).

• The agrarian country (in the North economy of small farmers prevailed, in the south - slaveholding plantations prevailed, specialized in cultivation of tobacco and clap.

• A Cotton boom. 4 million slaves worked on southern plantations by the middle of century, it was a half of population of southern states.

Development of colonization. Conflict of interests between farmers and slaveholders because of the new lands (the clap quickly exhausted the ground), that had led to the Civil war and liquidation of slavery