A History of Modern Europe - From the Renaissance to the Present

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The Second Industrial Revolution 753 Bohemia and Moravia contrasted sharply with the small-market ways of Austria and the Hungar ...

754 Ch. 19 • Rapid Industrialization and Its Challenges An early automobile assembly line. line reduced the time it took to prod ...

The Second Industrial Revolution 755 More Europeans could now travel for leisure than ever before. Middle­ class vacations becam ...

756 Ch. 19 • Rapid Industrialization and Its Challenges Further Scientific Discoveries: “A Boundless Future” and Its Uncertainti ...

The Second Industrial Revolution 757 postulate the structure of the atom, with a positively charged nucleus and negatively charg ...

758 Ch. 19 • Rapid Industrialization and Its Challenges (1879—1955), whose modest position as a patent examiner of other people’ ...

Social Change 759 such as clerks and salespeople, became available, and service employment drew migrants to cities. Increased fa ...

760 Ch. 19 • Rapid Industrialization and Its Challenges it was hardly flawless. Rudimentary condoms made of animal intestines we ...

Social Change 761 The average European laborer was still shorter than the average middle-class person. Migration and Emigration ...

762 Ch. 19 • Rapid Industrialization and Its Challenges Overseas emigration increased dramatically during the nineteenth cen­ tu ...

Social Change 763 other people they met along the way to know that they owned virtually noth­ ing to carry. Tens of thousands of ...

764 Ch. 19 • Rapid Industrialization and Its Challenges save enough money for a modest dowry, in the hope of marrying some­ one ...

Social Change 765 alike seemed to erode parental authority. Moralists blamed increasingly homogeneous working-class neighborhood ...

766 Ch. 19 • Rapid Industrialization and Its Challenges Prostitutes began to be perceived more than ever before as a chronic dan ...

Social Change 767 overwhelmingly concentrated in urban centers. Mechanized agriculture and falling agricultural prices reduced d ...

768 Ch. 19 • Rapid Industrialization and Its Challenges that some of the new arteries cut through some of the most traditionally ...

Social Change 769 ond Industrial Revolution. The cost of all these pro­ jects was enormous and far exceeded original esti­ mates ...

770 Ch. 19 • Rapid Industrialization and Its Challenges End, about which they knew nothing except “from hearsay and report,” was ...

Social Change 771 were surrounded by poor-quality, low-rent housing, usually owned by absentee landlords. More and more workers ...