HIST104- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 20 pages long!)
12 Oct 2017
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Exam 2 study guide: scientific (enlightenment, commercial/consumer, political (u. s. , france, haiti) Revolutions rooted in: demographic effects of agriculture, social transformation, trade. Systems and ideas: plantation to factory, colonies as external markets (triangular trade, corporations, monopolies, efficiency and productivity. The first phase: great britain, why, population. Five technological transformations: power (mining, water-pumping problem watt"s steam engine, fuel+machine=power, textiles (man-made clothes to machine-made clothes, metals. Hot blast (1829) cheaper, purer steel: bessemer process (1856) stronger, flexible steel, better metals meant possibilities in transport, building , transportation, travel independent of winds and weather certainty, communication, telegraph (1837) W. w. rostow"s five stages: traditional society, preconditions for take-off, take-off, drive to maturity, age of high mass consumption. Industrialization in society: creation of workers from peasant to proletariat; work and modern family; factory and family division of labor. Social transformation: earlier independence for younger adults and women, rise of extended family, collision of logic and profit. Industrialization understood: smith, division of labor, universal opulence.
