POLSCI 2J03 Lecture Notes - Industrial Revolution, Power Politics, Pax Britannica
3 Mar 2012
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Productive power: changes led to political power, industrial revolution. Wealth and power to elites of industrial revolution: concentrated in industrialized states, goes to the richest social people in that state. Liberal markets created at a cost: human cost, ex. For the industrial revolution to be successful you had to create a workforce (violent process) Free trade overshadowed by protectionism and imperialism: gold age of free trade, free trade was only one part of the system. 4. international order rested on inert domestic politics: system of international order was reliant on domestic politics. Were not democratic states: international arrangements at the time could only work if insulated by domestic politics. Industrial revolution changed global balance of power: signified the dominance of the western states, separates western states from other states, countries that were able to industrialized were relevantly wealthy. New sources of energy coal and steam: 3. Key industries textiles, steel (railroads, shipbuilding: 4.
