Part Six: The Industrial Revolution Didn’t End the Pattern. It Scaled It.
In Part Five, we looked at privateers, chartered companies, the British East India Company, and the Pinkertons. The names changed. The technology changed. The pattern did not. The Industrial Revolution didn’t invent the industrial complex. It industrialized the complex. Steam power, railroads, steel production, telegraphs, mass manufacturing, and eventually electricity transformed economies in ways previous…
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