THE 19TH CENTURY
Time for change
ECONOMIC CHANGE 1750 - 1850
Enclosure movement
Revolution in agriculture
Technological innovation and the Industrial revolution
Textile industry
Steam engine
Iron production
Canal building
ECONOMIC CHANGE 1750 - 1850
Railroads
Factory system
Industrial capitalism
Industrial cities
Exploitation of women and children
ECONOMIC CHANGE 1850 - 1914
Steel, chemicals, electricity and oil
Bessemer process of steel production
Internal combustion engine
Telegraph, phonograph, telephone
Wright Brothers develop first airplane
SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
Capitalism and socialism
Marx and Communism (Das Kapital, 1867)
Trade unionism
Demanding the right to vote: expanding the franchise
The rise of nationalism
The spread of education
SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
Science and religion
Darwin and the theory of evolution (Origin of the Species, 1859)
Modernism in art: impressionism and beyond
Freud and psychoanalysis
The role of women and the rise of femininsim