HIST 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Deflation, Fauvism, Henrik Ibsen
13 Nov 2017
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Tear down old medieval streets: water supplies and clean sewage, more healthy, celebrous as the capital of an empire. Lecture 13 - cultural & economic revolutions: redesigning cities. Politics of display--showcase of power to other empires. Urban poor and the development of colelctive housing. Usually expelled from the city and crowded in worst sectors (a) steel: the second industrial revolution, widespread. From w. europe to the scandinavia to russia based on steel, electricity, chemicals, petroleum. Large amount of steel could be produced -- removing of impurities from the steel. Improved the fragility--enable large production field led by germany and us: with the br somewhere behind on the third place (b) electricity. Electricity used to improve the society electricity for trains, trams, tube , elevators telephone (alexander graham bell, 1876) (c) chemicals alkalis and sulphuric acid. Revolutionized the production of paper, soaps, textiles, fertilizer. Gb dominant in soaps and household cleaners: mass marketing.
