HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Flying Shuttle, Water Frame, Spinning Jenny
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& pop. density, use of lands (presence of railroads & mining) structural transformations. & change happening as europe descends into the upheaval brought by the rev. Lecture outline: definition of terms: growth; structural change; Escape from malthusian trap : pop. growth & real wages. Continental system to block british imports from entering the continent. Britain was able to defy this system b/c of its overseas colonies & markets (has to do w/ new modes of production, employment, new supplies, use of land & resource) Ideologies that arose to define 19th century arose from the rev. & industrialization work together to mark transition to modern europe (forms of social & political organization) stem from new conditions, social conditions, consciousness. Industrial revolution isn"t as obvious as a revolution, term was coined by fr. observers in 1820s. Not same kind of phenomenon all over europe, quick change industrialization was actually a long, gradual process.
