WHAP 5.4

• characteristics of indust: capital, bat res, and water trans
• France: sparsely pop urban centers and French Rev delayed indust
• Germany: polit frag, unified steel and coal
• USA:19th begin, 1900 leading indust
• Human capital: (workforce) key factor in USA, immigrants and migrants =labor force
• Russia: Trans-Siberian Railroad (Moscow-Pacific Ocean) trade easy w East Asia, Econ agricult until communism 1917
• Japan: 1st Asian; least contact; defensive modernizationbuilt up military and economic strength so it could maintain domestic traditions
• Company rule: British East Indian co control over parts of Indian subcontinent
• mineral Production in India bad
• Brit gov equalizing tax on Indian textiles, undermine profit
• Europe worldwide eco reach: Egypt lost export market in textiles + domestic market