HIS 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Luddite, Enclosure, Grain
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The luddites: 1811-1816, textile worker"s livelihood is threatened by machines, smashed machines that took away their jobs, british troops/law cracked down property damage is now a capital offense, no more luddites. France 1820s: divided between those who accept revolution and those who do not, voters = rich only, reactionaries = hard core traditionalists/conservatives believed france to be too liberal. France 1830s: urban poor lower class violently overthrow authority---- pride, new leader ---- louis philippe bourgeois monarch/upper middle class policies favorable to middle class liberal ideas . Peasants lower class disanointed workers left out of policies . Ban on paris banquets: society changing faster than the political system, liberals, socialists, workers are against france government and censorship revolution. Return of order: france --louis napoleon elected . declared himself emperor 1851 . brings stability president for life, germany--- frankfurt assembly and a german state breakdown due to internal divisions .
