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For the first time, the opportunity to travel to distant cities by rail allowed even those of modest means to venture more than a few miles from their homes.
Likewise, the first underground transportation systems like the New York City
and Boston subway systems connected communities in the greater New York and Boston areas as never before. In fact, the increasing wages and consumer goods attributable to industrialization gave rise to en entirely new concept to the non-wealthy classes for the first time: leisure time and disposable income. To a certain extent, this also disturbed members of the traditional leisure class who, for the first time, had to share beaches and other recreational advantages with the masses of the lower class, which also prompted the former to look for other social outlets, such as the country drive in the new automobiles manufactured by Henry Ford. Toward the end of the...
The application of industrial materials, technologies, and processes to warfare shocked the world in the human carnage that it made possible and revealed a very deadly side of modernization that tempered international enthusiasm significantly.
From Optimism to Uncertainty:
At the same time, revolutionary ways of thinking challenged political systems and aspects of society and introduced social changes at a rate never before witnessed, mainly by virtue of the new communications and print media and transportation.
Ultimately, the period that began with tremendous optimism unfortunately ended with the outbreak of what was to be called the "war to end all war" in 1914. The application of industrial materials, technologies, and processes to warfare shocked the world in the human carnage that it made possible and revealed a very deadly side of modernization that tempered international enthusiasm significantly.
The decision to intervene in Latin American revolutions however brought internal conflict to the Concert, with Britain refusing to take part. The premise was that Britain's trade and profit from the Spanish would be lost with the end of the rebellion. 6. The Revolutions of 1848 took place throughout Europe as a result of cumulative political and economic issues. The economy was experiencing a downturn in concomitance with the historical
Muhammad Ali in Egypt and the Influence of Napoleon Services and Mission of Muhammad Ali Pasha Reforms under the Regime of Muhammad Ali Pasha Societal Reforms Education Reforms Westernization Economic Reforms Agricultural Reforms Political Reforms Political Reforms Economic Strengthening Activities to Make Egypt Self Sufficient Muhammad Ali the Father of Modern Egypt AFU Armed Forces Union CGS Chief of the General Staff CUP the Committee of Union and Progress Dev-Sol Revolutionary Left Dev-Yol Revolutionary Way D-SK Confederation of Unions of Revolutionary Workers DP Democrat Party EEC or EC European
In the Nineteenth Century, Mahmud II and Abdulmecid promulgated reforms that gave to millet the sense it has always had to Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Western scholars, diplomats, and politicians. The millet system furnished, degree of religious, cultural, and ethnic continuity within these communities, while on the other it permitted their incorporation into the Ottoman administrative, economic and political system. An ethnic-religious group preserved its culture and religion while being subject
A favorite target for conspiracists today as well as in the past, a group of European intellectuals created the Order of the Illuminati in May 1776, in Bavaria, Germany, under the leadership of Adam Weishaupt (Atkins, 2002). In this regard, Stewart (2002) reports that, "The 'great' conspiracy organized in the last half of the eighteenth century through the efforts of a number of secret societies that were striving for
Ottoman Empire is among the most fascinating periods in the history of civilization, and it remains the subject of scholarly study because of the impact it had on the world, and continues to have today. The empire began around as a medieval state in the late 13th Century around what is now known as Turkey; the region had largely been unaffected, either socially, militarily or economically by the social progress