HIST 1260 Lecture 6: LECTURE SIX - INDUSTRIALIZATION CONT. AND UNIFICATIONS OF ITALY AND GERMANY
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> people weren"t dying as quickly or as often. Infectious diseases still caused the majority of deaths, though. Almost all population growth was concentrated into cities. Cities like liverpool, birmingham, and manchester were barely significant until industrialization. Marx and engel"s theories came from observations on these places > poor conditions. In 1842, the average age of death for the working class was 17. Even though there were more well off people, their average age was only 38. Likely to live longer if you lived in a non-industrialized part of england. Attempt to rouse the public against the awful conditions in english industrial cities. Embodied the growing literacy of the british population. Serialized in literary journals > issues in tracing. Dostoevsky publishing in journals in russia in the 1850s, common form of publication. Glove makers smashed thousands of machines that had deprived them of their work. Ned ludd > historians unsure if he even existed.
