What is revolutionary about the Industrial Revolution

      1. What was so revolutionary about the Industrial Revolution? 2. In what ways did the Industrial Revolution shape and indeed transform British society? 3. How did industrialization differ in the United States and Russia? (which one was more advanced industrially--how and why?) 4. How was Latin America linked to the global economy of the nineteenth century (discussed near the end of the chapter)? What did other nations do to involve this region in industrialization?