HIST 102- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 27 pages long!)
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The industrial revolution changed everything politics, relationship with nature, methods of warfare i. e. as demonstrated in charley chaplin"s modern times urbanization landless proletariat lower-middle classes new modes of consumption. Origins>> britain late 1700s>> textile industry: machines using water, steam, coal. Negative effects disease dangerous working conditions i. e. charles dickens"s hard times proponent of ir: andrew ure. Remedies? limited regulation starting in britain in 1830s. The communist manifesto and scientific socialism abolishing private property putting means of production in hands of workers class struggle + natural law the influence of the french revolution on marx"s thinking committed professional revolutionaries (communists) Almost another great depression, but only a recession due to quick government action. *we should not be optimistic, we are facing larger problems than in previous centuries. Due in part to population growth (mostly outside the us and europe) Pop growth due in part to lower child mortality and higher life expectancy.
