Global Awareness

Unit 14 - The Late 19th Century

 

Unit Readings:

Western Heritage

Chapters 24-25

Modern European History

Chapters 26

PART A

Due Monday. March 18

  1. Discuss the most important trends and changes in European industry in the latter half of the 19th century. (pp. 880-84)

    2.

    Second Industrial Revolution

    Germany!

    Henry Bessemer & steel

    Gottlieb Daimler & the internal combustion engine

  2. Why and in what ways was Paris redesigned and improved in the latter part of the 19th century? (pp. 886-87)

    3.

    Napoleon III

    Georges Haussmann

    Cholera

  3. Discuss the efforts of European laborers to improve their conditions in the late 19th century and the new ideas that emerged about how to do so. (pp. 904-909)

    Labor Unions (now legal!)

    Extension of Franchise & Growth of Political Parties

    Karl Marx & the First International (1864)

    The Fabian Society

    Eduard Bernstein & Revisionism

    Bismarck's social welfare program

     

    4. Identify briefly …

    a) The Crystal Palace

    b) The Cult of Domesticity

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