HIS - History HIS 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Crop Rotation, Easypeasy, Cholera
9 Sep 2013
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2/26 the great transformation: the industrial revolution in britain. Ez thinks this is the biggest thing in history. Happens in britain because of simultaneous confluence of events/factors: growing population, productive/efficient agricultural sector, development of efficient transportation network, significant supply of investment capital, unparalleled network of trading partners, plenty of labor means plenty of consumers. This is the 2nd of 2 immense population growths in all of euro history. (first-greek dark ages) 1750- 2 possibilities: increase in fertility or decrease in mortality. Mortality is declining(people are putting in real floors, no more contact with carcinogenic wastes), but fertility is going up because marriage age has dropped from 26 to 23. The number of spinsters is cut in half. Well : w/ agricultural rev. food prices drop, people can afford more, better nutrition, more babies, which they can feed easier than previously. Result of an astonishing phenomenon, between 1730 and 1755 there was not one bad.
