HIS242H1 Lecture : lecture 1-2

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21 Jul 2011
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World fair, europe never reached the height that they reached before wwi, loses its luster as of this point. Ottoman empire, russian, austro hugarian and german empire along with france and gb were the dominant powers in europe. Europe would never again after the great war come to the height of its power that it achieved than. In 1914 25% of the worlds pop was in europe, this number never got higher even today, this was during a time when over a million people where leaving europe to immigrate to canada and other places. Economically by 1914, 56% of the world coal was produced by europe, produced. 60% of the world"s iron and steel and 62% of the worlds export. Europe was the centre of the economic world and london was the economic capital of europe. Dominant and largest free trade system that imported and exported all over the world. Social trends: urbanization growth and concentration of increase efficiency.

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