the romantic age, 1815 - 1848: the industrial revolution
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The Romantic Age, 1815 - 1848: The Industrial Revolution. “What’s that smell?”. Overview. The Industrial Revolution will be one of the most important shifts in human history It will begin in England, but at first as an Agricultural Revolution Topics Agricultural Revolution - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The Romantic Age, 1815 - 1848:The Industrial Revolution
“What’s that smell?”
Overview• The Industrial Revolution will be one of
the most important shifts in human history
• It will begin in England, but at first as an Agricultural Revolution
• Topics– Agricultural Revolution– Industrial Revolution
Agricultural Revolution
Technological Innovation
Seed Drill
New plow Thresher
Enclosure• Old feudal land
arrangements now useless
• Parliament passed “enclosure” acts closing off common land
• Led to higher crop yields
Industrial Revolution
Why England?£Colonial Empire (land)
£ Available Capital (money)
£ Available workers (labor)
Textiles
Flying shuttle
Spinning jenny
Cotton Gin Steam Engine
Railroads
Population Shift
Manchester
Social Changes£Landed nobility became less important£“Cotton Lords” & Entrepreneurs dominated society
•Poor, working class
Oliver; "Please, sir, I want some more."
Ned Ludd [a mythical figure supposed to live in
Sherwood Forest]
Attacks on the “frames” [power looms].
The Luddites
Classical Economics
Thomas Malthus
David Ricardo
• “Manchester School”• Ideas
– Free market, little government regulation, & no tariffs
– “iron law of wages”– System is naturally
occurring
Summary£For the lower classes, it was an improvement
¢Exploitation had existed before¢Did allow for an increase in life expectancy
£Upper classes, the bourgeoisie got richer and richer - intermarried with nobility£A new middle class formed
¢Factory managers, skilled labor¢Lawyers, doctors, etc
£Urbanization allowed for the rapid spread of ideas!
¢Newspapers and print culture