I think you are agreeing with him. Your quote > "It so happens that the industrial revolution happened in England and not India, and a bunch of European gangst

I think you are agreeing with him. Your quote > "It so happens that the industrial revolution happened in England and not India, and a bunch of European gangsters went on a three hundred year world wide rampage that is coming to an ignoble end now" This is exactly what happened. The book agrees with this. That is not being argued against. What he is discussing is 'why did the industrial revolution happen in England?'. What lead up to that. Not that they didn't do bad things once they had the technology.