Western Civilization - History Of European Society

420 Chapter 22 between 1750 and 1850, although a General Enclosure Act of 1801 served as a model for most others. By these acts, ...

Industrialization and the Social and Economic Structure of Europe 421 and finer steel. Steam-powered mills for grinding grains o ...

422 Chapter 22 were not the result of excellent technical schools; con- tinental schools such as the Schemnitz Academy in Hungar ...

Industrialization and the Social and Economic Structure of Europe 423 The woolen industry, which had older traditions, resisted ...

424 Chapter 22 English mining engineer, won the race to develop the first practical vehicle to carry passengers and goods, by de ...

Industrialization and the Social and Economic Structure of Europe 425 towns and cities. Older towns often still stood within the ...

426 Chapter 22 summer, as the poet laureate Robert Southey did, might not escape deplorable conditions. The air in Edinburgh was ...

Industrialization and the Social and Economic Structure of Europe 427 Age, Gender, and the Family The new industries initially f ...

428 Chapter 22 especially when considering gender. Women consti- tuted nearly one-third of the labor force in York in 1851 (a ty ...

Industrialization and the Social and Economic Structure of Europe 429 the stench of uncollected refuse in the streets and the fo ...

430 Chapter 22 straits that they faced were “but temporary” and they must be balanced against “the greater good which may be exp ...

Industrialization and the Social and Economic Structure of Europe 431 nesses might describe terrible living conditions during in ...

432 Chapter 22 which led to the annexation of rich mineral deposits. The wars of Frederick the Great had acquired the coal field ...

Industrialization and the Social and Economic Structure of Europe 433 The word capitalismwas coined during this mid-century gene ...

434 Chapter 22 state control of coal mines, broke the powers of the miners’ guild, and cut the taxes on mines by 50 percent. Pru ...

CHAPTER OUTLINE I. Introduction II. European Demography and the Increase in Life Expectancy III. Disease in Nineteenth-Century E ...

436Chapter 23 eighteenth century or the early twenty-first century. The life expectancy of a European male born today is seventy ...

Daily Life in the Nineteenth Century437 before their fifth birthday. The important facts, there- fore, are the decline of infant ...

438Chapter 23 1848 deaths per 1901 deaths per Percentage Disease million population million population change Airborne diseases ...

Daily Life in the Nineteenth Century439 epidemic between 1823 and 1926. In that century, 5.5 million Russians contracted cholera ...