The Emergence of Industrial Society in the West, 1750-1914
Subject:
I. Introduction
A. Introduction
1. Major Themes
a. Political Upheaval – age of revolution 1775-1848
b. Exportation of western European institutions to settler societies
2. Major Changes
a. Monarchies replaced by parliaments (extensive voting)
b. North America emerges as major force in world economics
3. Series of disruptions
a. New cultural forms – some challenge/support Enlightened thought
b. New states – Germany and United States
c. Led to new alliances – which led to the Great War
4. Phases of Western transformation
a. 1750-1775 – Period of growing crisis
b. 1775-1850 – political revolution simultaneously with industrial revolution
c. 1850-1914 – implications of industrial revolution
B. Optimism in Chaos
