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

352 Ch. 10 • Eighteenth-Century Economic And Social Change jewelry, to occupy special church pews near the altar (in some places ...

The Social Order 353 The British Landed Elite In Britain, there were only about 200 families that claimed noble title. Yet the p ...

354 Ch. 10 • Eighteenth-Century Economic And Social Change of Vice, the Universities.” The goal of the “grand tour” of the conti ...

The Social Order 355 registered their births, married couples, and buried the dead. Priests and ministers supervised charitable ...

356 Ch. 10 • Eighteenth-Century Economic And Social Change Triumphant merchants at table. Note that one of the merchants is smok ...

The Social Order 357 regions where lords dominated peasants of another ethnic group, as in Bohemia, where German landowners drew ...

358 Ch. 10 • Eighteenth-Century Economic And Social Change offenses such as poaching and trespassing, civil suits for debt, and ...

The Social Order 359 A family of serfs paying homage to their lord. Note the wife kissing the noble’s hand. state. Villages were ...

360 Ch. 10 • Eighteenth-Century Economic And Social Change 30,000 Transylvanian peasants rose up after a false rumor spread tha ...

The Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution 361 Measuring land in preparation for enclosure. tion to the British gross national ...

362 Ch. 10 • Eighteenth-Century Economic And Social Change improve farming techniques. Primitive farming techniques (including w ...

The Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution 363 unusually cold and damp seventeenth century. This had a salutary effect on popul ...

364 Ch. 10 • Eighteenth-Century Economic And Social Change Population Growth The European population rose from about 120 million ...

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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 ...