1712 - Early steam engine in britain
1776 - British lose north american colonies
1793 - French revolution
1812 - Trains used to haul coal in england
1832 - Middle class men get to vote in england
1848 - Karl Marx writes ”The communist Manifesto”
1891-1916 - Trans-siberian railroad
1917 - Russian revolution
Socialism - Why Bernie Sanders would be a bad prez. jk- A political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
Interjection of politics bc this makes me mad… If you’re going to support Sanders at least educate yourself… Socialism could be compared with Communism. But I didn’t say anything.
Mexican Revolution - a revolution for agrarian reforms led in northern Mexico by Pancho Villa and in southern Mexico by Emiliano Zapata (1910-1911)
Trade Unions - a labor union of craftspeople or workers in related crafts, asdistinguished from general workers or a union including all workers inan industry.
Urbanization
Karl Marx - (Animal Farm) Marx, in conjunction with Friedrich Engels, published "The Communist Manifesto" in 1848, which explains history as a class struggle between workers and owners of capital and sees a classless, communist society as an inevitable result of this struggle.
“Banana Republics” - a small country, esp in Central America, that is politically unstable and has an economy dominated by foreign interest, usually dependent on one export, such as bananas
Labour Party - a political party formed to represent the interests of ordinary working people. An amalgam of various trade unions and socialist groups, generally supporting the interests of organized labour and advocating democratic socialism and social equality
Model T - an automobile built by the Ford Motor Company from 1908 until 1927. Conceived by Henry Ford as practical, affordable transportation for the common man, it quickly became prized for its low cost, durability, versatility, and ease of maintenance.
Unification of Germany - The uniting of East and West Germany in 1990 after they had been separated since 1945. This followed the opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and then the collapse of the East German government.
I. Explaining the Industrial Revolution
A. Why Europe?
1. Technology, science, and economics elsewhere
2. Competition within Europe
3. State-merchant alliances
4. Competition with Asian imports
5. The American windfall: silver, sugar, slaves, and more
B. Why Britain?
1. Colonies, commercial society, and political security
2. Practical, not theoretical, science
3. Lucky geography
II. The First Industrial Society
A. The British Aristocracy
1. Landowners remained wealthy
2. Overall decline in class power
3. Turn to the empire
B. The Middle Classes
1. An amorphous group
2. Classical Liberalism
3. Samuel Smiles, Self-Help
4. Women: paragons of “respectability”
5. The lower middle class
C. The Laboring Classes
1. 70 percent of Britain
2. Rapid urbanization
3. New working conditions
4. Women and girls in the factory?
D. Social Protest
1. Trade unions, 1824
2. Robert Owen (1771–1858)
3. Karl Marx’s (1818–1883) “scientific socialism”
4. Labor Party and 1910–1913 strikes
5. British reform (and nationalism), not revolution
6. Competition and decline
E. Europeans in Motion
1. Migration to cities and other continents
2. Settler colonies
3. “White” Europeans in Latin America
4. Opportunities and diversity in the United States
5. Russians and Ukrainians to Siberia
III. Variations on a Theme: Industrialization in the United States and Russia
A. The United States: Industrialization without Socialism
1. Explosive growth
2. Pro-business legislation
3. Mass production for a mass market
4. Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller as cultural heroes
5. Difficult working and living conditions
6. Strikes and class conflict but weak political organization
7. Conservative unions, racial politics, and high standards of living
8. Populists and Progressives but few Socialists
B. Russia: Industrialization and Revolution
1. A complete opposite of the United States of America
2. State-sponsored change
3. Rapid industrialization produces social conflicts
4. Small but very radical proletariat
5. Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party
6. 1905: Revolution, repression, and reluctant reforms
7. Growth of revolutionary parties
8. 1917: Lenin and the Bolsheviks
IV. The Industrial Revolution and Latin America in the Nineteenth Century
A. After Independence in Latin America
1. Turbulent international and domestic politics
2. Caudillos
3. Caste War of Yucatán (1847–1901)
B. Facing the World Economy
1. Steam ships and telegrams
2. Exports to the industrializing world
3. Imported industrial goods
4. Foreign capital investment
C. Becoming like Europe?
1. A Eurocentric elite
2. Urbanization
3. Solicitation of European immigrants
4. Few saw economic benefits from exports
5. Growth of unions and strikes provokes repression
6. Rural poverty
7. Mexican Revolution (1910–1920)
8. “Dependent Development” and “Banana Republics”
9. American intervention
V. Reflections: History and Horse Races
A. Fascinations with “firsts”
B. Being first as being better?
C. Unexpectedness of the Industrial Revolution
D. Perhaps the spread is more important
A. Why Europe?
1. Technology, science, and economics elsewhere
2. Competition within Europe
3. State-merchant alliances
4. Competition with Asian imports
5. The American windfall: silver, sugar, slaves, and more
B. Why Britain?
1. Colonies, commercial society, and political security
2. Practical, not theoretical, science
3. Lucky geography
II. The First Industrial Society
A. The British Aristocracy
1. Landowners remained wealthy
2. Overall decline in class power
3. Turn to the empire
B. The Middle Classes
1. An amorphous group
2. Classical Liberalism
3. Samuel Smiles, Self-Help
4. Women: paragons of “respectability”
5. The lower middle class
C. The Laboring Classes
1. 70 percent of Britain
2. Rapid urbanization
3. New working conditions
4. Women and girls in the factory?
D. Social Protest
1. Trade unions, 1824
2. Robert Owen (1771–1858)
3. Karl Marx’s (1818–1883) “scientific socialism”
4. Labor Party and 1910–1913 strikes
5. British reform (and nationalism), not revolution
6. Competition and decline
E. Europeans in Motion
1. Migration to cities and other continents
2. Settler colonies
3. “White” Europeans in Latin America
4. Opportunities and diversity in the United States
5. Russians and Ukrainians to Siberia
III. Variations on a Theme: Industrialization in the United States and Russia
A. The United States: Industrialization without Socialism
1. Explosive growth
2. Pro-business legislation
3. Mass production for a mass market
4. Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller as cultural heroes
5. Difficult working and living conditions
6. Strikes and class conflict but weak political organization
7. Conservative unions, racial politics, and high standards of living
8. Populists and Progressives but few Socialists
B. Russia: Industrialization and Revolution
1. A complete opposite of the United States of America
2. State-sponsored change
3. Rapid industrialization produces social conflicts
4. Small but very radical proletariat
5. Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party
6. 1905: Revolution, repression, and reluctant reforms
7. Growth of revolutionary parties
8. 1917: Lenin and the Bolsheviks
IV. The Industrial Revolution and Latin America in the Nineteenth Century
A. After Independence in Latin America
1. Turbulent international and domestic politics
2. Caudillos
3. Caste War of Yucatán (1847–1901)
B. Facing the World Economy
1. Steam ships and telegrams
2. Exports to the industrializing world
3. Imported industrial goods
4. Foreign capital investment
C. Becoming like Europe?
1. A Eurocentric elite
2. Urbanization
3. Solicitation of European immigrants
4. Few saw economic benefits from exports
5. Growth of unions and strikes provokes repression
6. Rural poverty
7. Mexican Revolution (1910–1920)
8. “Dependent Development” and “Banana Republics”
9. American intervention
V. Reflections: History and Horse Races
A. Fascinations with “firsts”
B. Being first as being better?
C. Unexpectedness of the Industrial Revolution
D. Perhaps the spread is more important