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Chap 1: The industrial revolution
in Great Britain
Reminder:
Great Britain (England, Wales, Scotland)→United kingdom (+Ireland)

Great Britain the cradle(=berçeau) the Industrial Revolution
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Industrial Revolution=process that deeply transformed Ep economies and societies
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workshops→factories

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Production increase

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Agrarian→industrial (social structure)

Great Britain played a key role in this period
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Cradle of the 1st IR 1760-1840/ 1st country to benefit it

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English resources: archives/novels (Charles Dickens)

Natural resources
French traduction: coal=charbon

copper=cuivre

lead=plomb manganese=mangarèse

tin=étain

grain=céréales

zinc=zinc

steam=vapeur

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Metals: South-West, South of Wales, North and in Scotland

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Import resources from the colonies (spices/silk India, coffee US, wood GB)

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Raw materials

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Cheap workforce

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Customers for British products

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Control over the Global Trade

British=leaders in the stage of globalization

improvements
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Steam engine: James Watt
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British nobleman→design/Parliament→pass an act, money+promote

Economic/demographic consequences
In the 18th century
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Prices got cheaper→easier access for families to basic food
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