HIST 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Labor Aristocracy, Dying Young, Papal Infallibility
28 Mar 2014
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Lecture 10: migration, mobility and middle-class mores (reading: chapter 24, pp. The effect of the nineteenth century on the lives of the masses was increasing prosperity and rapid social change. 1870-1914 the population of europe grows by half. In eastern and southern europe there is a population explosion. 1900: europe holds 27% of the world"s population and 7% of the land: mortality goes down. Diseases are being eliminated and reduced (like dysentery and cholera) People are living longer and are more older people. Medicine: birthrates in rural areas is high. Germany here is the exception (very industrialized but with high birthrates) France birthrates are down a lot (some believe this is evidence of the evil of a republic) Birth control in marriage: fewer children are dying young, because families economically did not need to be as large. Instead of more labourers, children became more mouths to feed.
