HSTR 240B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Exposition Universelle (1855), French Second Republic, Spinning Jenny
13 Sep 2016
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Began is great britain in the mid 1700"s. Changed from hand production and small scale manufacturing to machine filled large workshop and factories (mechanized production) Key well-known inventions: watt steam engines, spinning jenny, plus: the railroad (first in 1820) Major human costs: urban slums in growing cities e. g. 1846 = 1 million, awful working conditions; child labour, emigration. Yet some important continuities - 1850: in britain, france and prussia (top 3) only 2-5% of working population in factories, even in 1848, this is still the norm in many places (working on farms, on the land) The french and russian empires in the nineteenth century. Elected president o the second french republic in 1848 = popular result. Within 3 years becomes a dictator emperor". Marx: history repeats itself fist as tragedy then as farce". 2 december 1851 staged a coup d" tat against the national assembly. 2 december 1852 louis napoleon crowned emperor of france (napoleon iii) 97% of.
