SY203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: French Revolution
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Week 1 lecture 3 sept. 13th, 2013. Two specific changes: the transformation in the economic structure of society taking place during the transition from feudal to industrial society. Referred to as the great transformation: the changes taking place in the political structure of society. Occurred as result of the french revolution in 1789. Changed class system of french society and altered the structure social equality. As these changes began to take effect, the old feudal economies began to dissolve. As a result, people were forcibly separated from agricultural land and could no longer produce their livelihoods in agriculture or satisfy their material needs of food, shelter and clothing. This accelerated the human drama the satisfaction of material needs because if you wouldn"t satisfy your immediate needs you did not survive: second, the new economies created a new form of economis necessity unseen in previous societies.
