POL-UA 700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bourgeoisie, Fasci Italiani Di Combattimento, Kishinev Pogrom
30 Oct 2017
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Industrial revolution: american (1776-1787) and french revolutions (1789-1799) Trade via i. r. is at the center of development that is going to end up in revolution; Printing press transformed everything sense that nothing had been the same after that (steam engine) Longer wars- legitimization, conscription, large bureaucracies, national education (literacy), centralization- tax collection, etc. - emergence of civil society, new urban working classes, control of economic life. Watershed moments (steam engines, change from coal to oil) Change from traditional to urban working classes. Usa low voting qualifications, but no more than 50-80 percent of the male on the electoral register. A combination of elected state assemblies. london appointed governors + networks of patronage. Anti-imperial struggle (no taxation without representation) turned into a national struggle for democratization. American civil war (1861-1865) crucial in american dem. north-south antagonism, emergence of finance/banking bourgeoisie, relative decline of agrarian capital railroad, oil, iron, banking, arms take over politics. Women and disenfranchised (native and black americans) remain outside-
