HIS280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pax Britannica, Crop Rotation, Industrial Revolution
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Problem was that there is power in manufacturing and countries did not want to be confined to food production when they could expand into manufacturing: technological revolutions. Agricultural brought about by private land ownership which lead to opportunities for greater growth: mechanization with machinery introduced in the industrial revolution and the development of crop rotation. Sea transportation steam ships: bigger and faster could carry more goods and people which facilitated migration. Communications the telegraph (centralized in britain and almost all lines pass through the country: demogaphics. European population growth massive growth in europe with an inability to keep up with the necessary food production. Migration primarily to canada, u. s. and australia: in 1910 18% of australians were born in britain, in 1910 15% of the u. s. population was born elsewhere and 21% were the children of immigrants, royalty and international politics.
