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

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 ...

CHAPTER 11EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DYNASTIC RIVALRIES AND POLITICS King George III (ruled 1760-1820) proclaimed that he ‘‘gloried in t ...

The Eighteenth-Century State System 387 tury reflected a more even distribution of power. This balance of power was increasingly ...

388 Ch. 1 1 • Dynastic Rivalries and Politics In the meantime, dynastic rivalries remained a major source of conflict. George I ...

The Eighteenth-Century State System^389 The trading post established by the British East India Company in Surat, India, late eig ...

390 Ch. 1 1 • Dynastic Rivalries and Politics Global rivalries led to conflicts between the great powers. French and British arm ...

The Eighteenth-Century State System 391 George I, the Hanoverian king of Great Britain who never learned English. be admitted to ...