HIST 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Times New Roman, Spinning Jenny, Chinua Achebe
2 Oct 2017
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Things fall apart by chinua achebe due october 5. French revolution: people are citizens not subjects. No clear beginning, no clear end: first appeared in britain in mid 18th century, became apparent in. Coal mining: the problems, danger of coal mining = water, use of women and children. Railroad: george stephe(cid:374)so(cid:374)"s rocket (cid:894)(cid:1005)(cid:1012)(cid:1007)(cid:1004)(cid:895, new transportation (railroad) brought together various elements, 1830 only a few dozen miles, 1840 over 4,500 miles, 1850 over 23,000 miles. Importance of railway: transported goods quickly and cheaply, changed conceptions of time, space, speed, created demand for iron, coal, heavy machinery, labor, capital investment, connected separate regions and integrate them into single economic/political unit. Why did the industrial revolution take place in britain, not in continental. Europe: availability of capital (enclosure, agricultural revolution, primitive accumulation, no internal tariffs (integrated domestic market, monopoly of overseas trade (cotton): slave trade liverpool: global economy, social conditions (dynamic of social mobility), entrepreneurship: watt,
