GEOG 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Economic Geography, Electrical Engineering, Core Countries
Document Summary
Late 1700s - new regional geographies emerge. They were previously based in kingdoms and empires. That system is gradually replaced with enlightenment values and a geography based on a new economic system. New production technologies (factories), new energy sources (coal) Transportation - canals and trains - link together growing industrial center and the movements of all kinds of goods. 1790-1859 - based on early industrial technologies. Highly localized - limited to a few regions in britain. Based on availability of resources - coal, iron ore, and water. 1850-1870 - diffusion of industrialization to most of the rest of britian and to parts of nw europe. Railroads and steamships brought new places, markets, and resources into the sphere of industrialization. New geographies - larger towns with rail connections and port cities. Overcrowding, short life spans, disease, child labour. Cholera and the birth of epidemiology - map of deaths by cholera.
