3 ms·
>it wasn’t a coincidence that the industrial revolution was followed by three centuries of war This is woeful selective reading of history. Warfare was a const
by maverick_iceman 10y ago
>it wasn’t a coincidence that the industrial revolution was followed by three centuries of war
This is woeful selective reading of history. Warfare was a constant everywhere in the world before the industrial revolution. Also 19th century Europe (since Napoleon's fall to WWI) was largely free of war.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> Also 19th century Europe (since Napoleon's fall to WWI) was largely free of war. Well, if you exclude (and these categories are overlapping and non-exhaustive) the Italian wars of independence, conflicts associated with the 1848 revolutions, the various wars involving Russia and it's neighbors, the wars between the Ottoman Empire and it's breakaway regions, the wars between regions that has broken away from the Ottoman Empire, the (with substantial outside intervention) Portuguese Civil War, the Franco-Prussian War, the (again, with substantial outside intervention) series of civil wars in Spain, the Schleswig Wars, and the wars of German Unification...Sure, maybe the post-Napoleon I 19th Century was relatively free from war in Europe. If you don't ignore those, war was pretty much constant in the period.
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoWell, OK, but the Napoleonic Wars were continent-wide. So was World War I. Those others? Not so much.