Strayer, Chapter 20 (pp.586-606)

If the measure of success is national wealth and power, then the Industrial Revolution was a great accomplishment.  Rather then the preservation of the environment, spiritual growth, and the face-to-face relationships of village life, and then the Industrial Revolution would be considered a disaster.  This is all important for people to understand good judgment and wise choices, needed to make better decisions for the future.  No single colonial experience characterized the two countries across this vast region.  Men and women experienced the colonial era very differently, as well as traditional elites, Western-educated classes, urban artisan, peasants farmers, and migrant laborers.  The construction of these second-wave European empires in the Afro-Asian world, like empires everywhere, military forces, and the threat of using it.  Economies of Coercion: Forced Labor and the Power of the State, many young children and adults were punished  and were victims of brutal regime of forced labor undertaken in the Congo during the late 19th century.