During the second half of the nineteenth century, the United States and Canada experienced an urban revolution incomparable in world history up to that point in time. ... The rise of big cities during the nineteenth century created a unique urban culture. ... Nineteenth century American industrialization relied upon poverty and immigration for its success. ...
The Oxford English dictionary describes the industrial revolution as a rapid industrial development, which took place in England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, chiefly owing to the introduction of new or improved machinery and large-scale production methods. ... Firstly, Britain adopted the term 'industrial revolution' to describe her economic growth in the early nineteenth century. ... It became firmly rooted in the French language in the early nineteenth century, and it had a meaning widely recognized today: rapid economic growth fueled by advancement in te...
It is estimated that the real wage tended to be higher than that of the Orient and India during the thirteenth century and possibly even during the twelfth (Jones 3). ... It is estimated that at the start of the fourteenth century, the combined peoples of France, Germany and Britain supported 15 percent of the population through peasant work (meaning that 85 percent of the population were peasants). ... The Europeans even went so far as to legislate marriages as early as the eighteenth century. ... Introduced in the late-15th century, the printing press enabled scientists engaged in widely div...
There were many revolutionary inventions that contributed to the giant leap made by America during the Industrial Revolution. There were inventions in the textile industry, inventions in transportation, and many other things and people that influence the Industrial Revolution. The Railroad was one...
Great Britain has been dominant industrial maritime power of the nineteenth century, it has played a leading role in parliamentary democracy developing, and in literature and science advancing. ... In 43 AD to century 400, Romans were confined effectively to the lowland areas of England. Many signs of the four centuries of occupation can still be seen today. ...
Throughout the 19th century, Europe went through the Second Industrial Revolution. ... " Advancements made during the 19th century transitioned into the 20th century and developed even more. ... The mid nineteenth century was the period of the Second Industrial Revolution. A 20 year old living in Europe in 1850 would have gone through a century of new and amazing breakthroughs and advancements. ... The advancements of the Second Industrial Revolution in the 19th century caused the cultural explosion in the 20th century that expanded even more and can be seen as a very good thing in the 21...
Originally, it was the textile industry which produced cotton in the eighteenth centuries, then developed to the spinning of linen yarn the 1830's then linen weaving in the 1850's. ... Moreover they improved their relations with other countries such as Britain which was important in helping the development of industry and trade in Ulster in the late nineteenth century....
During the late eighteenth century and early to mid nineteenth century, there was a mass exodus of people from Europe, China, Japan, Canada and the West Indies moving into the United States. This was a time for growth in the United States, often referred to as the Industrial Age. Skilled and unski...
In the late nineteenth century, European nations sought to dominate countries in Asia and Africa, this period of time known as the "New Imperialism."" The drive to expand power pass European borders led to war and rivalry between European powers and their colonies. The drive for more land led Europe...
This was the effect of the international power European Nations and the USA gained during the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. ... These perceptions though were tried to influence the American society, which came to the Fair to mainly celebrate the industrial achievements of the century, in a way that they would approve U.S. involvement in the imperialistic movement of the world. ...
Colley sees Britain's many wars with France in the eighteenth century as central catalysts in the forging of this British national identity. ... As the eighteenth century progressed, the debate over a woman's proper place in society grew intense, not just in Britain, but throughout Western Europe and North America. ... The early nineteenth century allowed women to come to terms with the meanings and demands of Britishness. ...
In order to do the Lord's work, in the 19th century, European countries divided African lands amongst themselves, exploited their then still undeveloped resources, and enslaved the African people, thus furthering their own commercial interests and expanding their kingdoms. ... Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Rudyard Kipling's "The White Man's Burden" depict the 19th century belief that it is the white man's destiny through God to colonize Africa and other under-developed nations. ... These two publications along with a 20th century African charter demonstrate t...
The XXI century shows the considerable gap between the rich and the poor and it is commonly admitted that it is due to globalisation. ... For example, we can see in England and in America as well, that the differences in income between upper and lower social layers are larger than they have ever been since collection of income distribution statistics began at the end of the nineteenth century. ...
Wars and rebellions were commonplace in seventeenth century Ireland. ... British racism toward the Irish contributed to starvation Since the Norman Invasion of Ireland in the twelfth century, the English took an attitude of racism toward the Irish. ...
For the overlapping between executive and legislation, Walter Bagehot writing in the nineteenth century was to keen emphasize when he stated that 'the efficient secret of the English Constitution may be described as the close union the nearly complete fusion of executive and legislative powers.' ...
