HSTR 342A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Table Manners, Scientific Revolution, Thomas Robert Malthus
13 Oct 2018
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Big developments in legal, philosophical, ethical thinking. Ancient regime/the old regime: pre-rev, beginning to crumble. Challenges to the old order: secularization, waning relationship between church and state & belief in divine right of kings, scientific revolution -> enlightenment, underground network of books undermining the old regime. End of old regime = end of 18th cent, our boi napoleon comes thru. Transportation: no cars, no trains, no bicycles (da vinci thought of it but never did it first one came up in 1880s, rich people had horse-drawn carriages, approx. 10km/h: roads: cobblestone, dirt tracks, majority of people rode a horse or walked, people did(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e (cid:396)easo(cid:374) to go (cid:448)e(cid:396)y fa(cid:396) limited horizons bc work located in local town/village, families lived close-(cid:271)y a(cid:374)d did(cid:374)"t go fa(cid:396) Communication: no phones, no telegraphs (invented early 19th century, only written communication, 75% average illiteracy (conservative estimate, rich&educated wrote letters, could take weeks-months to get there.
