I'm pleased to introduce one of my new geography interns, Juliet Jacobs. Juliet's first article is within the realm of economic geography; she wrote a great overview of Rostow's model of economic growth and development. This 1960 model of a nation's growth is based on western examples and has been routinely criticized. Nonetheless, Juliet presents the full picture of the Rostow model. Enjoy!
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I didn’t know about this guy until your article. Thanks for the education. Even after reading more on the internet I can’t quite understand why his opus got published. Seems to me he looked back to the history of the Industrial Revolution and constructed a scenario that fit England and some western European countries of the time. Sure doesn’t fit the US.
The world population had grown rapidly to 1 billion by 1830, three times the maximum population of any earlier era. They needed clothing, then only made of natural fibers, wool, flax, cotton. The Industrial Revolution was also the factory revolution where power looms produced cloth in quantities theretofore unimagined . The American South produced much of the needed cotton.
Even today we see making of cloth and garments as countries industrialize. Nearly all the garments we buy are made outside of “Developed Countries.”