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

512 Ch. 13 • Napoleon and Europe About 2 million men served in Napoleons armies between 1805 and 1814; about 90,000 died in batt ...

CHAPTER 14 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Manufacturing on a small scale had been part of the Europe­ an experience for centuries. Th ...

514 Ch. 14 • The Industrial Revolution A factory town in Germany in the 1830s. which burgeoned as never before. Conditions of li ...

Preconditions for Transformation 515 the Industrial Revolution tended to emphasize the suddenness of the changes it brought; his ...

516 Ch. 14 • The Industrial Revolution Table 14.1. Estimated Populations of Various European Countries from 1800 to 1850 (in mil ...

Preconditions for Transformation 517 Life expectancy increased in all classes. Individuals surviving their first years could ant ...

518 Ch. 14 • The Industrial Revolution gave way to the plow. Between 1750 and 1850 in Britain, 6 million acres— or one-fourth of ...

Preconditions for Transformation 519 impoverished Balkans, some peasants began to grow corn, potatoes, and tomatoes. Yet in much ...

520 Ch. 14 • The Industrial Revolution Map 14.1 Principal British Railway Lines, 1851 The construction and operation of railroad ...

Preconditions for Transformation 521 The opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825. Southampton to London. Yet, at ...

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Preconditions for Transformation 523 to German health spas and casinos, whose clientele a century earlier had been limited to pr ...

524 Ch. 14 • The Industrial Revolution A Variety of National Industrial Experiences During the first half of the nineteenth cent ...

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526 Ch. 14 • The Industrial Revolution form English agriculture earlier than anywhere else, feeding Britain’s grow­ ing populati ...

A Variety of National Industrial Experiences^527 Power looms in a British cotton factory, 1830. (the process by which threads ar ...

528 Ch. 14 • The Industrial Revolution Furthermore, banks—like investors—faced unlimited liability in the event of bankruptcy. D ...

A Variety of National Industrial Experiences 529 many rural areas in response to increased demand, spurred by a modest level of ...

530 Ch. 14 • The Industrial Revolution Map 14.4 The Zollverein (German Customs Union), 1834 States and cities within the German ...

A Variety of National Industrial Experiences 531 In the Ruhr Basin, young Alfred Krupp (1812-1887) began to manage his late fath ...