Big Era Seven Industrialization and Its Consequences 1750-1914 CE
To: Mundo CAUTION: Contents Under Pressure Contents under pressure I wonder what s inside? A package! I love packages!
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The Modern Revolution Fossil Fuels Democratic Politics Communication Revolution Quite a package! But how did these changes get all bundled up together?
For starters, in Big Era Seven human population was increasing faster than ever before!
World Population, 400 BCE - 2000 CE
World Population in Big Era Seven 1800 1600 1400 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 0 1750 1850 1900 But the growth was not equal everywhere! Millions
World Population of People of European Descent in Europe, the United States, and Canada combined. Year Population in Millions 1750 141 19.3 % of World Population 1850 292 25.0 1900 482 30.0 For example, the population of European descent in these three regions grew significantly between 1750 and 1900.
Growth of the Population of Boston 1690-7,000 158% 1790-18,038 1900-560,892 3,010%
Not only was the human population growing, it was moving.
Migration from Europe from 1750 or earlier Microsoft Encarta Reference Library 2002 1993-2001 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Continuing Atlantic slave trade after 1750 Microsoft Encarta Reference Library 2002 1993-2001 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Labor migration from Asia mainly after 1750 Microsoft Encarta Reference Library 2002 1993-2001 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Major Global Migrations Europeans overseas including Siberia 1820-1930 55-60,000,000 Africans to the Americas 1811-1870 1,900,000 Asians overseas 1850-1920 2,500,000
But a growing population meant that human need for resources for energy was growing, too. And humans dealt with this need by using fossil fuels. Watch!
Small wax candle, 800 BCE 5 watts
Parson s turbine, 1884 CE 100,000 watts
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The Fossil Fuel Revolution The biological old regime ends when vast new sources of energy come into use: Coal Electricity Gas Petroleum Nuclear
By taking energy from fossil fuels like coal instead of biomass like wood
The Fossil Fuel Revolution Over millions of years, ancient forests change into peat, then coal.
and with better and better steam engines to harness coal s energy
Power loom weaving Lancashire, 1835 People could produce more efficiently.
In Britain coal mines were close to factories and cities. In China coal mines were far from factories and cities. How might history have been different if the closest sources of coal available to Britain were, say, in the Carpathian Mountains of southeastern Europe?
Coal mine in the Rhondda valley in Wales
And travel more quickly. Robert Fulton s Clermont steamship 1807
And travel more quickly George Stephenson s Rocket steam locomotive 1829
The increasing power of steam engines in Big Era Seven
The Industrial Revolution Fossil fuel energy in production and transportation
The Industrial Revolution allowed for new global economic relationships.
U.S.A. Egypt Russia India Microsoft Encarta Reference Library 2002 1993-2001 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Cotton exports from agrarian economies to industrial economies
Microsoft Encarta Reference Library 2002 1993-2001 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Textile exports from industrial to agrarian economies
Old limits on how much energy people could use were gone! And in Big Era Seven people tore down other limits too
New economic ideas People should be able to buy and sell land freely. People should be able to buy and sell labor freely. People should be able to buy and sell goods freely. Adam Smith argued for ideas like these in his book The Wealth of Nations (1776).
New economic ideas People should be able to buy and sell land freely. People should be able to buy and sell labor freely. People should be able to buy and sell goods freely. Sounds great! But what did governments need to do to make these ideas work?
Standardize weights and measures. Build railroads, ports, and telegraphs. Improve public health.
Metric system 1790 Transcontinental railroad 1869 Antiseptic medicine 1867
In Big Era Seven, government played a greater role than ever before in people s lives. And while that happened, people s ideas about government changed, too!
New political ideas: People should be free to choose their government. Government should protect people s liberties. Tom Paine argued for these ideas in Common Sense (1775) People should have equal rights.
New political ideas Sounds democratic! A nation should be free to choose its government. Government should protect people s liberties. People should have equal rights.
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Governments wrote constitutions. Governments promoted education. Governments created representative institutions.
United States Constitution 1787 French National Assembly 1789 Ottoman Turkish Regulations for Public Education 1869
What happened if governments wouldn t make these changes themselves?
United States 1776 Haiti 1791 Change the government! The Atlantic Revolutions France 1789 Venezuela 1811
United States 1776 Haiti 1791 In each country, people struggled over liberty, equality, and nationalism. France 1789 Venezuela 1811
Ascendancy of Liberalism What was it in the 19 th century?
Ascendancy of Liberalism Are the political and economic tendencies in these two boxes compatible or inconsistent? Rational thought and behavior Civil freedoms and legal equality Rule of law Constitutional and limited government The right to vote and be educated Technical and scientific progress Free market economy Nationalism that advances the community of nations Enhancement of state power and centralization Increased state military and police power State-managed social welfare More efficient taxation State economic management Larger-scale economic enterprise Imperial conquest and authoritarian rule over colonized Exclusivist or xenophobic nationalism
Were these four 19 th -century leaders champions of Liberalism? Napoleon Bonaparte 1799-1815 Mahmud II 1808-1839 William Gladstone 1868-94 Porfirio Díaz 1876-1911
So much was changing so fast How could people keep up?
People moved more quickly. Ideas moved more quickly.
The Steamboat Communication Revolution Newspaper Railroad Transatlantic cable
The Speed Revolution One hour of optimum travel: ½ Walking - 5 km ½ Horse-drawn coach - 10 km ½ Railway locomotive (1847) - 96 km ½ Normannia steamship (1890) - 40 km ½ French rapid train - 297 km ½ Jet plane - 1000 km
Railway Development in Europe 1840 1850
Railway Development in Europe 1880
Railway Construction in India 1853-1931
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The Modern Revolution meant powerful economic growth in the world as a whole. $3,000,000.00 $2,500,000.00 $2,000,000.00 $1,500,000.00 $1,000,000.00 $500,000.00 $0.00 1700 1820 1870 1913 World Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Dollars as valued in 1990
Powerful, but not equal. The countries which modernized first used it to their advantage.
70 The Modern Revolution shifted the world s economic center. 60 50 40 30 20 Eur./N.A Asia 10 0 1700 1820 1870 1913 Percentage of World GDP Western Europe and North America vs. Asia
After the Modern Revolution, much more food went on the world market India, 1877
and it was often shipped to where it got the highest price, India, 1877
not to where it was needed most.
And industrial technology could be used not only to create, but to destroy.
And more of the world was colonized than ever before.
Battle of Omdurman, Sudan, 1898 Sudanese dead, 10,000 British dead, 48
The European Moment Land surface of the world controlled by Europeans: 1800 35% 1878 67% 1914 88% But... duration of European world domination in the past 2000 years: 80 yrs
Egypt Some elites around the world tried to adopt parts of the Modern Revolution to strengthen their own governments. Japan Russia Mexico
Egypt Modernize the army. Modernize the economy. Maintain independence. Japan Russia Mexico
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People who traveled to learn about one part of the Modern Revolution, like fossil fuels,.
also learned about the democratic part of the Modern Revolution.
And they didn t keep the ideas to themselves. They communicated them, because it was all part of the package.
And powerful elites who wanted to modernize in some ways did not count on people demanding the democratic part of the package.
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The Modern Revolution promises many things to many people. No wonder the package is under pressure!
And once the package is opened, the whole world jumps in! To: Mundo CAUTION: Contents Under Pressure
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Big Era Seven The End