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