HIST1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Class Consciousness, Decembrist Revolt, Factory Acts
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02/16/2016 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) First of 50 revolutions in the 4 months of 1848. All the revolutions shared the same fate: failure. 1830s (small successes): greek independence, france: more liberal king, Two ideals emerging from the french revoution: liberte (liberty, fraternite/egalite (society, equality, clarification: two kinds of liberalism. Political (stuart mill, trying to get rid of the old aristocratic order) What makes a revolution? (long-term vs. short-term) Short-term: comes down to economic disparities and downturns, cycle of bad things, overproduction of goods because high food prices. Too many workers = lay offs and rising unemployment. The great famine (potato blight) in ireland - 1840s. Depended on the potatoe, leading to population growth. Mold from south america destroyed the crop. 1 in 8 irish died and many left the country. You don"t want to stop industrial growth.
