HIST1094 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Industrial Revolution, Bourgeoisie
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Social revolutions: social upended the social structure of society a. i. Economic revolutions: not the creation of new businesses and forms b. Inspire other revolutions: contagious b, chain of social revolutions and chain of events, continue uninterrupted d. i. American french later revolutions: modern history is not just one long revolution e. i. None of them happen without resistance, most of the times violent f. ii. Social: brings all power from upper part of hierarchy to lower. Political: broader distribution of political power to everyone. Economic: rich just get richer, can broaden economic power. Revolution: leads to new parties of power that concentrate the power in their own hands, still reorder social power to the masses of people b. i. Counter revolution reverse the power and bring it back to where the power originally was. Class: relate class to system of production, class role in production and economy, most societies have aristocratic class in early societies c. i.
