HIST 2F20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Regency Era, Cotton Gin, Evangelicalism
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A: economic shifts, changing attitudes to religion, expansion of empire, new ideas about the self, industrial and technological change. Most of 19th century - second wave of industrialization. By 1829 british commentators increasingly aware of this, this tech and industrial changes would change the lives of these people. Incredible changes in the span of one lifetime: economic shifts. Shift from mercantilism to capitalism; mercantilism: economic attitude in which nations wealth is increased by favourable balance of trade via merchants (govern. promotes balance, protectionist in which wealth is finite. ) Agriculture, coal, textiles and ____: changing attitudes to religion. Religion is and was a major unifying source, but can act as major dividing force. New shift to centrality of religion to state and political matters, not see issues and crisis like we did in the first semester. Still considerable catholic persecution (in terms of work), eventually extends to jewish population.
