History 1401E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Umberto Boccioni, Second Industrial Revolution, Infant Mortality
26 Sep 2018
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Sums up the ideology and is a transformative period. Old ways of governing and politics were not really suited to the new modern world. Dominant modes of thought that were developed in the 18th century. The enlightenment period specifically, a europe that was more based on reason and science. They now used science and technology to improve their society. Half a billion people living in the continent, lower rates of infant mortality. Advancement in medical science and increase in food supply. Europe had reached a height in modernity but optimism was placed by a sense of fear and belief in science was put under scrutiny. Totalitarian movements claim to provide an alternative model to liberalism and reason. Second industrial revolution take off after 1850 and is more focused on steel and manufacturing, its more widespread throughout the continent. The crisis emanates from the second revolution, a more large scale revolution. Urbanization was brought out by this revolution.
