FASH 162 Lecture Notes - Thomas Robert Malthus, Gothic Revival Architecture, Factory Acts
3 Jul 2020
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19th century fashion: frock coats, top hats, crinolines (reifr cke) more or less. At the same time a very dynamic age as foundations of the modern world were laid. The 19th century began in crisis and ended with. Britain being the major superpower in the world. Moreover, major social developments, the final rise of the middle class and the british empire came to its greatest extensions. At first, the french revolution was greeted with excitement by british intellectuals: thomas. Paine the rights of man (1791), edmund burke reflections of the revolution in france (who also invented the concept of the sublime ). Besides, burk was also pro-american revolution; thomas carlyle the french revolution (1837) another major british intellectual; the ancien r gime was swept away. A tale of two cities (these being london and paris) by charles dickens. Admiral horatio, lord nelson beat the french fleet in the battle of trafalgar in 1805.
