HIS 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Nationstates, East India Company, Decembrist Revolt
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Europe: working and living in the early-mid 19th century, social protest an effect of industrial revolution on working classes; luddites in. England, advocates of protective legislation; limit workday: emigration to americas and australia, industrial revolution produced wealth on unprecedented scale, but wealth dis- tributed unevenly. Challenges to main currents of economic thought; radicals, liberals, utopian socialists, nationalists, abolitionists, and religious mavericks. Period restoration vs. resistance; age of ideology: many radicals believed the french revolution had not gone far enough. Examples; polish uprisings, greek independence from ottomans 1832: socialists and communists; both concerned about inequalities of industrial capi- talism, free market economy had to be transformed to save humanity from itself. Karl mark (1818-1883) became the most important restoration-era radicals. The communist manifesto 1848 marx called on the workers of all nations to unite in overthrowing capitalism. Rulers in russia, ottoman empire, india and china all sought to borrow from western. Prophecy and revitalization in the islamic world and africa.
