HIST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: The Great Exhibition, London 1851 Chess Tournament, Extraterritoriality

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Increased productivity led to declining prices: under consumption of manufactured goods. Development of consumer capitalism: depart(cid:373)e(cid:374)t tore: the (cid:449)orld"s first depart(cid:373)e(cid:374)t store (cid:271)elo(cid:374)gs to hardi(cid:374)g, ho(cid:449)ell & co"s. Grand fashionable magazine at 89 pall mall in st. ja(cid:373)es"s lo(cid:374)do(cid:374). Georgian shop was divided into four departments, offering furs and fans, haberdashery, jewelry and clocks, and millinery, or hats: harding, howell & co was focused on the needs and desires of fashionable women. Here, women were free to browse and shop, safely away from home and form the company of men. Idea was to shift emphasis to increasing consumption: by 1850 consumers had access to goods from around the world. Global consequences: decline of economies of india, china, ottoman empire, although industrial products of west inferior to artisan produced goods, asian and other markets forced to open doors to western traders and merchants.

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