Europe has long been a seed of political, cultural, and economic influence. Its major events have helped shape the course of world history.

A manipulated photograph with chimneys of an old factory from the times of the industrial revolution.

A piercing smell of steel and wet concrete peers through the industrial smog. A piece inspired by The Shad Thames in London.

Erich Mercker Forging Steel in factory | Industrial painting

Image done using Kitbash 3d industrial Sample kit

The modern world was made not by material causes, such as coal or thrift or capital or exports or exploitation or imperialism or good property rights or even good science. It was made by ideas from and about the bourgeoisie — by an explosion after 1800 in technical ideas and a few institutional concepts, backed by a massive ideological shift toward market-tested betterment, on a large scale at first peculiar to northwestern Europe.