Industrialization and Revolutions of Western Society

Chapter 23

I. Introduction Numerous changes occurred between

1750 and 1914• Industrialization• Political Revolutions

This time period was fueled by the Age of Enlightenment• People are good (or improvable)• Rationalism vs. blind faith• People should be set free

I. Introduction Industrialization

• Brought more people to towns/cities• Changed focus slightly from agriculture• More people lived above subsistence level

Lower birthrates as a result of lower mortality rates Pasteur Improved food distribution and production

II. Revolutions Why was this time a time of

revolutions? Major Revolutions

• French• American• Latin American• English

III. Cultural Changes Karl Marx

• Socialism- Solution to class inequality Necessary before communism

• Communism- everything is shared and equal

• Revisionism- peaceful not revolutionary

III. Cultural Changes Feminism

• Originally to improve life of women• Political and Social Rights• Became a means for breaking cultural roles

III. Cultural Changes Mass Leisure Culture

• Focus on leisure activities• Middle Class

White Collar labor• Secretaries, clerks and sales people

III. Cultural Changes Abolition of Slavery

• American Civil War Einstein- Science Freud- Psychology Darwin- Science

IV. Paving the Way for War Europe and US became very

successful• “Imperialism”

War was a fear• Massive build up of weapons• Elaborate alliances• Balkans Powder Keg