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In "Defining the Industrial Revolution" author Peter Stearns argued that the start of the Industrial Revolution was in what decade?

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Answer: Nineteenth Century, 1760 precisely

Explanation: According to Peter Stearns, in the book, Defining the Industrial Revolution, industrial revolution started two and half centuries ago in three waves.

The first revolution started in 1760 in the United States and Western Europe. The second wave second wave started on the shores of Russia and Japan and some parts of eastern and southern Europe including Canada and Australia from the 1880s. In the 1960s in the Pacific Rim, Turkey, Brazil, and other parts of Latin America, the third wave started. Each major wave of industrialization got into other societies that were not outrightly industrialized affecting their basic social and economic relationships.

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