History 1401E Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Chartism
18 Aug 2016
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1848 revolutions: the springtime of peoples: 1830-1848: building pressures, the english model a. i. The tens hours bill (1847: on the continent, the 1848 revolutions: success at first, the february revolution in france, revolution in austria, revolutions in germany, revolutions in italy. Wealth is being concentrated in the hands of the new elite: people are getting very rich and very powerful extremely quickly. Massive poverty was facing the other end of the scale: people being taken advantage of, urbanization and industrialization is very concentrated which meant that not everyone had access to it. Rural areas in eastern europe yearned for emancipation from serfdom. All of these things combined bring about rising tensions throughout a good portion of. The english model: england is ahead in term of social transformations, they were the most rapidly industrializing country. New modern cities were appearing everywhere: representation in the house of commons was based on old districts.
