A rough-skinned tuber from the Andes that Europeans spent two centuries refusing to eat ended up doubling populations, feeding armies, and supplying the factories of the Industrial Revolution with workers who had nothing left to do in the fields.

beestrot.com · Jean Louis A rough-skinned tuber from the Andes that Europeans spent two centuries refusing to eat ended up doubling populations, feeding armies, and supplying the factories of the Industrial Revolution with workers who had nothing left to do in the fields.

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Coal-hungry inventions of the Industrial Revolution created a massive and sustained boom in coal mining.

Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · September 23 · 1h 48m

The Industrial Revolution was not a single event but a cascade of interlocking economic transformations — beginning in 18th-century Britain and spreading over 150 years — that permanently altered how