HTST 338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Industrial Revolution, Protestantism
6 Oct 2016
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Each change is accompanied by another change to keep up with the advancements. (1825) steam trains were next (george and robert stephenson) (1807) steam ships (robert fulton) --> got increasingly efficient. New machines coming along means laborer numbers drops food can be produced efficiently or imported cheaply. Depressions started with agriculture farmers in britain trying to compete with this importation. Miners from 1860-1900s were extensive, coal was a tenth of all exports from britain. 1835-1901 textiles were huge, many women employed as seamstresses and dressmakers. Huge iron industry in britain- railway tracks, railway bridges, ships, blast furnaces, pots (1870-1900) Huge steel industry to replace iron industry since it was better (around 1918 officially) Ships were huge in (1900"s) tons of them. **urban middle class as a vehicle of change: Conspicuous consumers show everyone all the useless stuff they can buy. Urban middle class as a vehicle for constitutional change:
