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A History of the Modern World
A History of the Modern World, 9/e
R R Palmer, Yale University
Joel Colton, Duke University
Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Reaction versus Progress, 1815-1848

Chapter Outline

LII. The Industrial Revolution in Britain

  1. The Agricultural Revolution in Britain
    1. [Image Drill seeder]
    2. [Image Horse-hoe]
    3. [Secondary Discussion Enclosure Acts]
    4. [Image Substantial farmers]
  1. Industrialism in Britain: Incentives and Inventions
    1. [Image Fly shuttle]
    2. [Image Spinning jenny]
    3. [Image Richard Arkwright]
    4. [Image Water frame]
    5. [Image Steam engine]
    6. [Image Cadbury Factory, Birmingham]
    7. [Image Saltaire, Yorkshire]
    8. [Images New Lanark Cotton Mills]
    9. [Images New Lanark Cotton Mills]
    10. [Image Power loom]
    11. [Image Cotton gin]
    12. [Image Newcomen steam engine]
    13. [Image Watt and Boulton steam engine]
    14. [Image River boat]
    15. [Image Robert Fulton]
    16. [Image George Stephenson's Rocket]
  1. Some Social Consequences of Industrialism of Britain
    1. [Primary Source Manchester industry]
    2. [Image Working family occupying one room]
    3. [Image Working class housing, Birmingham]
    4. [Image Unskilled labor at work]
    5. [Primary Source Observations on the Loss of Woolen Spinning, 1794]
    6. [Image Child labor]
    7. [Image Female textile worker]
    8. [Primary Source Letter from Leeds Cloth Merchants, 1791]
    9. [Image Robert Peel the Elder]
    10. [Secondary Discussion Factory Act of 1802]
  1. Classical Economics: "Laissez Faire"
    1. [Image Thomas Malthus]
    2. [Primary Source Thomas Malthus, Essay on Population, 1798]
    3. [Secondary Discussion David Ricardo]
    4. [Primary Source David Ricardo, The Iron Law of Wages, 1817 ]
    5. [Image David Ricardo]

LIII. The Advent of the "Isms"

  1. Romanticism
    1. [Primary Source William Wordsworth, The World Is Too Much with Us, 1807]
    2. [Image William Wordsworth]
    3. [Primary Source Lord Byron, The Isles of Greece]
    4. [Image Lord Byron]
    5. [Primary Source Percy Bysshe Shelley, Defence of Poetry, 1819]
    6. [Image Percy Bysshe Shelley]
    7. [Primary Source Mary Shelley, The Last Man, 1822]
    8. [Image Mary Shelley]
    9. [Image Victor Hugo]
    10. [Image Rene Chateaubriand]
    11. [Image George Sand]
    12. [Primary Source Friedrich von Schiller, Letters Upon The Aesthetic Education of Man, 1794]
    13. [Primary Source Friedrich von Schiller, Ode to Joy]
    14. [Image Friedrich von Schiller]
    15. [Primary Source Friedrich von Schlegel, German Romanticism in Philosophy]
  1. Classical Liberalism
    1. [Primary Source Benjamin Constant, On the Sovereignty of the People, 1815]
    2. [Image John Stuart Mill]
    3. [Primary Source Mill, On Liberty, 1859]
    4. [Primary Source John Stuart Mill, Liberalism Evaluated]
    5. [Secondary Discussion European Liberalism, 1815-1850]
  1. Radicalism, Republicanism, Socialism
    1. [Image Jeremy Bentham]
    2. [Primary Source Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1781]
    3. [Image Republicanism: Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People at the Barricades, 1830]
    4. [Secondary Discussion Robert Owen]
    5. [Primary Source Count de Saint-Simon, The Failure of European Liberalism, 1824]
    6. [Image Henri de Saint-Simon]
    7. [Primary Source Charles Fourier, Theory of Social Organization, 1820]
    8. [Image Charles Fourier]
    9. [Primary Source Louis Blanc, Organization of Work]
  1. Feminism
    1. [Image An Armed Woman is Dangerous, 1848]
    2. [Image French feminists, 1848]
    3. [Secondary Discussion Cutting the Marionette String]
    4. [Primary Source Anne Wheeler and William Thompson, Appeal of One Half of the Human Race, Women, against the Pretentions of the Other Half, Men]
    5. [Image Frances Wright]
    6. [Primary Source Harriet Taylor, Enfranchisement of Women, 1851]
    7. [Image Harriet Taylor]
    8. [Primary Source John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women]
    9. [Image Flora Tristan]
    10. [Primary Source Flora Tristan, L'Union Ouvriere]
  1. Nationalism: Western Europe
    1. [Primary Source Johann Gottfried Fichte, Addresses to the German Nation, 1808]
    2. [Image Johann Gottfried Fichte]
    3. [Image Slavic Revival]
    4. [Primary Source Herder, Materials for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind]
    5. [Secondary Discussion Carbonari]
    6. [Secondary Discussion Sublime and Perfect Masters]
    7. [Image Masonic lodges and Italian nationalism]
    8. [Primary Source Joseph Mazzini]
    9. [Image Joseph Mazzini]
    10. [Image Young Italy printed works]
    11. [Primary Source Joseph Mazzini, The Duties of a Man]
    12. [Image Brothers Grimm]
    13. [Secondary Discussion Hegel]
    14. [Image G.W.F.Hegel]
    15. [Secondary Discussion Leopold von Ranke]
    16. [Primary] Friedrich List, National System of Political Economy]
  1. Nationalism: Eastern Europe
    1. [Secondary Discussion Greek nationalism]
    2. [Image Francis Palacky]
    3. [Image Adam Mickiewicz]
    4. [Secondary Discussion Slavophiles]
  1. Other "Isms"
    1. [Primary Source Conservatism: Joseph DeMaistre, The Divine Origins of Constitutions, 1810]
    2. [Secondary Discussion Monarchism]
    3. [Secondary Discussion Humanitarianism]

LIV. The Dike and the Flood: Domestic

    1. [Image Louis XVIII]
    2. [Secondary Discussion Tory]
    3. [Image Metternich]
    4. [Primary Source Metternich, Political Confession of Faith, 1820]
    5. [Primary Source Metternich, Secret Memorandum to Tsar Alexander I, 1820]
    6. [Image Tsar Alexander I]
    7. [Primary Source French Constitutional Charter of 1814]
  1. Reaction after 1815: France, Poland
    1. [Secondary Discussion White terror in France, 1814]
    2. [Image Charles X]
    3. [Image University of Vilna]
  1. Reaction after 1815: The German States, Britain
    1. [Map German Bund]
    2. [Image Friedrich Schiller University, Jena]
    3. [Image Burschenschaft]
    4. [Image Wartburg Congress, 1817]
    5. [Primary Source Carlsbad Decrees]
    6. [Secondary Discussion ] Corn Law]
    7. [Primary Source Peterloo Massacre]
    8. [Secondary Discussion Six Acts]
    9. [Secondary Discussion Cato Street]

LV. The Dike and the Flood: International

    1. [Primary Source Holy Alliance]
  1. The Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, 1818
    1. [Image Lord Castlereagh]
  1. Revolution in Southern Europe: The Congress of Troppau, 1820
    1. [Primary Source Congress of Troppau]
  1. Spain and the Near East: The Congress of Verona, 1822
    1. [Image Alexander Ypsilanti]
    2. [Image Caricature of the Congress of Verona]
    3. [Secondary Discussion Ferdinand VII]
  1. Latin American Independence
    1. [Primary Source Simon Bolívar, Message to the Congress of Angostura, 1819]
    2. [Image Jose de San Martin]
    3. [Secondary Discussion Mexico]
    4. [Primary Source Mexican Constitution, 1824]
    5. [Primary Source Monroe Doctrine]
    6. [Image George Canning]
  1. The End of the Congress System
  1. Russia: The Decembrist Revolt, 1825
    1. [Image Decembrist revolt]
    2. [Image Nicholas I]

LVI. The Breakthrough of Liberalism in the West: Revolutions of 1830-1832

    1. [Secondary Discussion Anglo-French-Russian naval intervention in Greece]
    2. [Secondary Discussion The Greek Revolution]
    3. [Primary Source Greek independence]
  1. France, 1824-1830: The July Revolution, 1830
    1. [Image July Revolution]
    2. [Image Marquis de Lafayette]
    3. [Image Louis Philippe]
    4. [Primary Source French Constitution of 1830]
    5. [Primary Source Francois Guizot, The July Monarchy]
  1. Revolutions of 1830: Belgium and Poland
    1. [Image Belgian revolution]
    2. [Primary Source Nicholas I, Imperial Manifesto on Poland, 1832]
    3. [Secondary Discussion Leopold of Saxe-Coburg]
  1. Reform in Great Britain
    1. [Image Robert Peel]
    2. [Secondary] Church of England]
    3. [Secondary Discussion Catholic Emancipation]
    4. [Image Bobbies]
  1. Borough-mongers
    1. [Secondary Discussion Reform Bill of 1832]
  1. Britain after 1832
    1. [Secondary Discussion Slavery abolished]
    2. [Secondary Discussion Poor Law]
    3. [Secondary Discussion Municipal Corporations Act]
    4. [Image Lord Ashley]
    5. [Secondary Discussion Factory Act of 1833]
    6. [Secondary Discussion Ten Hours Act]
    7. [Secondary Discussion Anti-Corn Law League]

LVII. Triumph of the West-European Bourgeoisie

    1. [Image West-European bourgeoisie]
    2. [Secondary Discussion Railroad building]
    3. [Image Steamship]
  1. The Frustration and Challenge of Labor
    1. [Images Labor estranged from bourgeois age]
    2. [Images Labor estranged from bourgeois age]
    3. [Image Workhouse]
    4. [Secondary Discussion Labor unions]
  1. Socialism and Chartism
    1. [Secondary Discussion Chartism]
    2. [Primary Source People's Charter]
    3. [Image Wave of riots in 1842]
    4. [Primary Source Riots]
    5. [Primary Source Testimony Gathered by Mines Commission, 1842]