9780791070925 | Chelsea House Pub, October 1, 2002, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Discusses the history of the Industrial Revolution, and how the technological innovations contributed to the change in many areas, including environment, agriculture, work force, and daily living.

9780791070932 | Chelsea House Pub, October 1, 2002, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Looks at the Age of Progress that existed in the second half of the nineteenth century, when the application of science to technology and industry led to faith in the future, but also laid the groundwork for conflict between European states.

9780791070963 | Chelsea House Pub, October 1, 2002, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Looks at how industrialization since 1968, particularly in communication and information science, transformed economic, political, and social structures, and created insecurity in developed countries and desperation in underdeveloped ones.

9780791070949 | Chelsea House Pub, October 1, 2002, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Looks at how progress in technology, intellectual and scientific work, and society during the first half of the twentieth century led to world war and, ultimately, fundamental changes in world culture.

9780791070956 | Chelsea House Pub, October 1, 2002, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Looks at globalization as a product of the unprecedented economic growth in developed countries during the thirty years following World War II as underdeveloped countries struggled with hunger and disease.

9780791070970 | Chelsea House Pub, October 1, 2002, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Looks at how technology, modernism, and increasing scientific knowledge have led to a political and cultural division, not between East and West, but between those who accept things as they are and those who say they must change.