HUM 223 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Christianity, Protestant Reformation, French Revolution

• School: CBU, Cal Baptist
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUM 223
• Professor: Mark Blincoe

Document Summary

Rapid growth demands industrial innovation to increase factory production. Coal output in 1850 (thousands of metric tons) Overwhelming success; over 6 million tickets were sold. Reinforces the status of london as the center of britain. Conservatives feared that the exhibition would be the focus of revolutionary mobs. Radicals (like marx) viewed it as a display of capitalism"s excesses. Growing consumer class also meant a growing working class. :squalid living conditions (who has time to clean) A christmas carol; moral obligations of the middle class towards the working poor. Oliver twist; life in an orphanage under the poor laws. Oliver twist is based on the early life of robert blincoe. Robert blincoe is a rags to middle class story. :often viewed in the 19th century as the progressive nature of industrialization. Hardships of child labor; basis for dicken"s critique of the factory system. Parliament investigates factory conditions in 1833; robert blincoe is interviewed.