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

366 Ch. 10 • Eighteenth-Century Economic And Social Change often to no avail. Famine, following several successive harvest failu ...

The Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution 367 Manufacturing: Guilds and Domestic Industry The workshop remained the basis of m ...

368 Ch. 10 • Eighteenth-Century Economic And Social Change Carding and spinning at home. to collect and pay for the goods that h ...

The Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution 369 the number of workers in the textile industry, the leading edge of the Industria ...

370 Ch. 10 • Eighteenth-Century Economic And Social Change not diffused for more than twenty years), which ultimately made it po ...

The Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution 371 houses, where skilled workers and their apprentices used stronger, more reli­ ab ...

372 Ch. 10 • Eighteenth-Century Economic And Social Change Great Britain was by far the wealthiest nation in the world. Its colo ...

The Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution 373 corpses be dressed in woolens for burial, a clever way of helping woolens manufa ...

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Social Changes 375 Even in Western Europe, Britain’s South Sea Bubble (see Chapter 11) and the collapse in 1720 of John Law’s ba ...

376 Ch. 10 • Eighteenth-Century Economic And Social Change Table 10.2. Europe s Largest Cities at the End of the Eighteenth Cent ...

Social Changes 377 had more than 30,000 inhabitants: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Kiev. Yet the Polish capital, Warsaw, which h ...

378 Ch. 10 • Eighteenth-Century Economic And Social Change that someone or something reflected “urbanity.” Three-cornered hats, ...

Social Changes 379 Notice the marked contrast between the poor worker and the elegant member of the gentry in this English etchi ...

380 Cm. 10 • Eighteenth-Century Economic And Social Change Pedigree of useless Members of Society, but deck’d with Virtue and Fr ...

Social Changes 381 ing enough to eat and hunger or starvation, between occasional employ­ ment and begging, and between relative ...

382 Ch. 10 • Eighteenth-Century Economic And Social Change other charitable institutions cared for the sick, invalids, and the e ...

Social Control 383 The concern for protecting property could be seen in the Marriage Act (1753), which for­ bade clandestine mar ...

384 Ch. 10 • Eighteenth-Century Economic And Social Change A public hanging at Tyburn in London. them between 1760 and 1810. Abo ...

A Century of Contrasts 385 bandits were known as chauffeurs because they held their victims’ feet to the fire to force them to r ...